Flake away from (something) verb phrase
To come off something into flakes or small pieces
Look! There are some pieces of plaster flaking away from the ceiling.
The paint of the old houses has flaked away from the walls for years.
To fail completely; to go to the bottom very quickly
1. Fall in a sequence
2. Be damaged, destroyed or defeated quickly and sequentially
To stumble and fall.
To change or fall over suddenly and dramatically.
1. To flow or fall off someone or something.
2. To make something to roll away, off someone or something.
The verb “flake" should be conjugated according to its tense.
To do something in an unusual way
I guess I like to run against the grain in everything I do.