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Definition of "drop away" [drop away]

  • To become less or less numerous. (verb)

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Use "drop away" in a sentence
  • "So they have been in no hesitancy about drawing out the bad things he did as well as the good in their efforts to get a "Mark Twain story," all incidents being viewed in the light of his present fame, until the volume of "Twainiana" is already considerable and growing in proportion as the "old timers" drop away and the stories are retold second and third hand by their descendants."