fall away

Definitions

1. 1

   To cease to support a person or cause.

   • After the divorce, all his friends fell away one by one.
   • These […] for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
   • My "ex"es include both practicing and fallen-away Catholics and Jews.
2. 2

   To diminish in size, weight, or intensity.

   • One colour falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.
   • While long-distance and commuter rail travel still fared well, train travel to seaside resorts was perhaps inevitably falling away.
   • The power off, the engine noise falls away as we roll east under an odd mixture of old and new bridges.
3. 3

   To perish

   To perish; to vanish; to be lost.

   • How […] can the soul […] fall away into nothing?
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   1. 4

      To slope downward.

The neighborhood

• neighborfall down
• neighborfalling-out
• neighborfall out