drop away

English

Verb

drop away (third-person singular simple present drops away, present participle dropping away, simple past and past participle dropped away)

1. (intransitive) To become less or fewer.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 9, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.