drift away

1. 1.

   lose personal contact over time

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

   Synonymsdrift apart

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Questions about drift away

What does drift away mean?

drift away means "lose personal contact over time".

What is another word for drift away?

Close synonyms include drift apart. 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 away a common word?

drift away 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.