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trail away/off
When a person's voice or a similar sound trails away/off, it becomes quieter and less confident and then stops completely
• His voice trailed off as he saw the look on her face.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs
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Phrase(s): trail (along) (after someone or something)
1. to drag along after someone or something. • His pants were torn, and a piece of his trouser leg trailed along after him. • His trouser leg trailed after him. 2. to follow along after someone or something. • A little dog trailed along after Mary and Karen. • Is that your dog trailing along?
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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verb move/walk slowly ADV. slowly | wearily PREP. after I trailed wearily after the others. | around/round They spent their lives trailing around the country. | (along) behind have a lower score than the other player/team ADV. badly Liverpool are now trailing badly in the league. PREP. by They were trailing by 12 points until the last few minutes of the game., noun line/smell that sb/sth leaves behind ADJ. scent Ants follow a scent trail laid down previously. | blood, smoke, vapour | thin | muddy | false VERB + TRAIL lay, leave, make The couple laid a false trail to escape the paparazzi. The tourists left a trail of litter behind them. | pick up The dog had picked up the trail of a rabbit. | follow | lose The fox had crossed a stream, and the hounds lost the trail. TRAIL + VERB go cold They had to find the kidnappers before the trail went cold. PREP. on sb's ~ Detectives had found several new clues and were back on the murderer's trail. PHRASES a trail of blood, a trail of devastation The hurricane passed, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. | a trail of smoke path/route ADJ. forest, nature, woodland | 10-kilometre, 5-mile, etc. | cycle, mountain bike, tourist, walking | hippy, tourist This restaurant is off the tourist trail. | campaign, comeback, winning (all figurative) After a disastrous few seasons, the team are on the comeback trail. VERB + TRAIL follow, hit In 1967 she hit the hippy trail to India. | be on (often figurative) TRAIL + VERB go, lead, wend its way The trail wends its way through leafy woodland and sunny meadows. PREP. along a/the ~
Oxford Collocations Dictionary