/dr?ft/C2If twopeopledriftapart, theygraduallybecomelessfriendlyandtheirrelationshipends.(关系)渐渐疏远,冷淡下来SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesSeparating and dividing
apheresis
atomize
bifurcate
bifurcation
bisect
clove
dissociate
dissociateyourselffromsomething
dissociation
disunite
disunity
fracture
hive
parcel
polarized
polarizer
prophase
pull
pullsomething/someoneapart
unravel
See more results ?(Definition ofdrift apartfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)Examples from literature
Almost inevitably they had drifted apart.
He made no strong efforts to win her back to him, so they drifted apart again.
His name was familiar to me, for many years ago my parents were acquainted with him, but they drifted apart.