fall away

See also: fallaway

English

(intransitive) To cease to support a person or cause.
After the divorce, all his friends fell away one by one.
- Bible, Luke viii. 13
  These […] for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
To get worse. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
To diminish in size or weight.
To diminish in intensity.
- Addison
  One colour falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.
To perish; to vanish; to be lost.
- Addison
  How […] can the soul […] fall away into nothing?

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