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drift apart en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic, intransitive, of companions) To lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness.
   • To think of what we've been, and not to kiss again, seems like pretending it isn't ending, two friends drifting apart, two friends but one broken heart 1931, John Klenner, Just Friends:
   • We used to be good friends but we drifted apart over the years.

Forms

Translations (13)

hu eltávolodik (to lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness) · cmn 生疏 (to lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness) · ru отдаля́ться (to lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness) · ru отдали́ться (to lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness) · es distanciarse (to lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness) · fi ajautua erilleen (to lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness) · pl oddalić się od siebie (to lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness) · it perdersi di vista (to lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness) · cmn 疏遠 /疏远 (to lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness) · pl oddalać się od siebie (to lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness) · fr se perdre de vue (to lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness) · ru расходи́ться (to lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness) · ru разойти́сь (to lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness)