Definition of "drift away" []

• Lose personal contact over time (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "It quickly resolidified as the five remaining ships moved into a pentagon of offensive power, leaving the injured craft to drift away from the group."
• "Holmes listened politely to the protestations of freedom, and allowed the subsequent conversation to drift away into a series of bloodthirsty reminiscences of wartime ghazis."
• "Casuistics was in the hands of others who were perhaps too much in contact with the world, the parish clergy, who under the pressure of the needs of their care and cure of souls might easily drift away from the high canons which they had learned in the seminaries during their youth."