drift apart

1. 1.

   lose personal contact over time

   “The two women, who had been roommates in college, drifted apart after they got married”

   Synonymsdrift away

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Questions about drift apart

What does drift apart mean?

drift apart means "lose personal contact over time".

What is another word for drift apart?

Close synonyms include drift away. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drift apart a common word?

drift apart is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.