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fall away (from someone or something)

1. Lit. [for something] to drop away from someone or something. The paint is falling away from the sides of the house. Over the years, all the paint fell away.

2. Fig. [for someone] to move back or retreat from someone or something. The soldiers fell away from the line of battle.

3. Fig. to distance oneself from someone; to end an association with someone. The candidate's supporters fell away from her when they heard about the scandal.

See also: away, fall

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It was one of those moments which sometimes come and go without any apparent cause, when life suddenly takes a mystical aspect of completeness, all its discords are harmonised by some unseen hand of the spirit, and all its imperfections fall away. The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks and months fall away quicker into the past. The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context How little real sympathy there exists between us; how many of my thoughts and feelings are gloomily cloistered within my own mind; how much of my higher and better self is indeed unmarried - doomed either to harden and sour in the sunless shade of solitude, or to quite degenerate and fall away for lack of nutriment in this unwholesome soil The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context			fair play fair shake fair to middlin' fair to middling Fair's fair fair-haired boy fair-weather friend faire fairer fairy fairy godmother fait faith Faith will move mountains fake fake it fake off fake out fake out of fall fall afoul of fall all over fall apart fall asleep fall at fall away fall away toward fall back fall back on fall below fall beneath fall between fall between two stools fall by fall by the wayside fall down fall down on fall down on the job fall flat fall flat on face fall for fall for hook, line and sinker fall foul of fall from fall from grace fall from power fall head over heels fall head over heels in love fall heir to fall ill fall in			Fall (season) Fall (season) fall about Fall About Laughing fall afoul fall afoul fall afoul fall afoul fall afoul of fall again into fall against fall all over fall all over fall among Fall and tackle fall apart fall apart fall apart fall apart fall apart fall apart at the seams fall apart at the seams fall apart at the seams fall armyworm Fall Arrest Manufacturing Company Fall Arrest Safety Equipment Training fall asleep fall asleep fall asleep at the switch fall at fall away fall away toward fall back fall back fall back fall back fall back Fall back and forward Fall back and forward Fall back and forward fall back on fall back on fall back on fall back upon fall behind fall behind fall behind fall behind fall below fall below fall beneath fall between fall between (the) two stools fall between (the) two stools fall between (the) two stools fall between (the) two stools fall between two stools fall block Fall Board Skins fall by fall by inheritance

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