drift apart

Verb

Meaning

lose personal contact over time

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Synonyms

drift away depart abandon walk away estranger be separated cause a rift distance oneself dissociate oneself from create a rift distance yourself distancing ourselves be separate deflect us disassociate itself

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Antonyms

focus join connect combine gather concentrate

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Hypernyms

alienate estrange disaffect

Examples

It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people, we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps. William Boyd

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories. Diane Setterfield

We must either draw closer together or we shall drift apart. Joseph Chamberlain

The two women, who had been roommates in college, drifted apart after they got married Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

drift about drift along drift anchor drift away drift back drift back into