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单词 fall away
释义 fall away
intransitive verb
1.
 a. : to withdraw friendship or support
  < they had only been the companions of his pleasures and would be the surest to fall away in affliction — Marcia Davenport >
  — often used with from
  < the party leaders fell away from him, and his popularity seemed on the wane >
 b. : to renounce one's faith : apostatize
  < those who had fallen away during the recent persecutions — K.S.Latourette >
2.
 a. : to diminish in size or height : grow gradually smaller
  < although the limbs are long and powerful … the animal falls away behind — James Stevenson Hamilton >
 b. : to swerve or drift off a line of direction
  < the boat kept falling away to starboard >
  < falling away from the second baseman's tag and hooking the base with his toe as he slid past >
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