fall away
verb- To cease to support a person or cause. · After the divorce, all his friends fell away one by one.
- To diminish in size, weight, or intensity.
- To perish; to vanish; to be lost.
- To slope downward.
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Instantly the wicked woman gave a loud cry of fear, and then, as Dorothy looked at her in wonder, the Witch began to shrink and fall away.
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