Usually means: Gradually become less close, connected.
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  1. drift apart: Vocabulary.com
  2. drift apart: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. drift apart: Wiktionary
  4. drift apart: Dictionary.com
  5. drift apart: Rhymezone
  6. drift apart: FreeDictionary.org
  7. drift apart: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. drift apart: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. drift apart: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. drift apart: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (drift apart)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive, of companions) To lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness.

Similar:
disconnect, drift off, grow apart, fall out, split up, lose touch, divide, break, come away, fall off, more...

Opposite:
bond, unite, connect, reconcile

Types:
separate, divide, disconnect, diverge, part, more...

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Similar:
disconnect, drift off, grow apart, fall out, split up, lose touch, divide, break, come away, fall off, more...

Opposite:
bond, unite, connect, reconcile

Types:
separate, divide, disconnect, diverge, part, more...



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