drift away

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

drift away
    v 1: lose personal contact over time; "The two women, who had
         been roommates in college, drifted apart after they got
         married" [syn: {drift apart}, {drift away}]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

22 Moby Thesaurus words for "drift away":
      decline, die away, diminish, dwindle, ebb, fade, fade away, go,
      go away, move away, move off, pull away, recede, retire, retreat,
      retrocede, shrink, sink, stand off, wane, widen the distance,
      withdraw

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