trail away

English

Verb

trail away (third-person singular simple present trails away, present participle trailing away, simple past and past participle trailed away)

1. Alternative form of trail off
   • 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 10, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 64:

     His eyes in and out of the cafés and scanning the park benches but no sign of her as the afternoon trailed away.