Definition of "fall away" [fall away]

• To cease to support a person or cause. (verb)

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• ""Sometimes one'll fall away and another one'll take over, like they're working in shifts.""
• "She called faintly, “Mira,” then seemed to fall away from the phone."
• "The woods fall away steeply to our left, and we are going in the general direction of Baligrod."