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1. drop out, give up, fall by the wayside, drop by the wayside, throw in, throw in the towel, quit, chuck up the spongeverb

   give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat

   "In the second round, the challenger gave up"

   Antonyms:
   enter, participate

   Synonyms:
   spare, leave office, allow, abandon, forfeit, vacate, release, put in, give up, resign, forgo, kick, throw in, come in, surrender, part with, fall by the wayside, lay off, waive, throw overboard, dispense with, step down, cede, depart, stop, relinquish, throw in the towel, deliver, inject, cease, chuck up the sponge, renounce, discontinue, free, drop by the wayside, interpose, take leave, forego, interject, quit, foreswear

2. drop outverb

   withdraw from established society, especially because of disillusion with conventional values

   "She hasn't heard from her brother in years--he dropped out after moving to California"

   Antonyms:
   participate, enter

   Synonyms:
   drop by the wayside, fall by the wayside, chuck up the sponge, quit, give up, throw in the towel, throw in

3. drop outverb

   leave school or an educational program prematurely

   "Many students drop out because they are not prepared for our challenging program"

   Antonyms:
   enter, participate

   Synonyms:
   drop by the wayside, fall by the wayside, chuck up the sponge, quit, give up, throw in the towel, throw in

How to use drop out in a sentence?

1. Matt Spellman:

   Cedar Rapids's too big, cedar Rapids really is. I'm ready( for people to drop out). Cedar Rapids's getting to be too overwhelming.

2. Ron Nehring:

   Donald Trump is the debate's Rorschach test -- every competitor sees something different in him, now that things are getting more serious and some of the weaker candidates are under financial pressure to move up or drop out, it will be interesting to see how they respond.

3. Arnold Schwarzenegger:

   It doesn’t matter that Donald Trump backed out of the Paris agreement, because the private sector didn’t drop out, the public sector didn’t dropout, the universities didn’t dropout, the scientists didn’t dropout, the engineers didn’t dropout. No one else dropped out.

4. Matt Spellman:

   It's too big, it really is. I'm ready( for people to drop out). It's getting to be too overwhelming.

5. Jeb Bush Jr.:

   As a Floridian, I'm a little disappointed, because he's missing, like, 35% of his votes. And it's just kind of like, dude, you know, either drop out or do something, but we're paying you to do something, it ain't running for president, we're way ahead of Marco's campaign.

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