Drop out

Synonyms for "drop out" (80 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (16)

abandonagree to differagree to disagreeback outbe at variancebe in dissentbeg offbeg to differbreak boundsbreak stepcry offdepart fromdifferdisagreedisagree with
Verb(1 words)
chuck up the sponge

Strong matches (24)

Verb(5 words)
disappeareddrop by the waysidefall by the waysideflunksgive up
discarddiscord withdissentdissent fromdividedivide ondropevacuateforsakego back onhear a different drummerjettisonjiltleave
Noun(5 words)
discontinuedisengageearly exitexitformer student

Related words (40)

leave behindleave flatmake wavesmaroonnonconformnot agreenot complynot conformopposeopt outprotestpull outquitquit coldrenegerock the boatsay goodbye tosecedeseparatestand down
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take exceptiontake issuetake issue withtake leave ofthrow overvacatewithdrawwithhold assent
Verb(5 words)
quitretiredscratchedthrow inthrow in the towel

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

22 entries
breakbreak offceasedepartdiscontinueeducational statuseventgive uplay offleaveoccurrencepersonpull up stakesquit

Showing 16 of 22 words.

More specific

8 entries
club dropoutdropout ratedropout riskearly dropouthigh school dropoutmiddle school dropoutschool dropoutteam dropout

Collocations

12 entries
drop out of activitiesdrop out of classdrop out of schooldropout datadropout preventiondropout programdropout ratedropout riskdropout studentearly dropouthigh school dropoutmiddle school dropout

Inflections

4 entries
dropoutsdropped outdropping outdrops out

Derivations

2 entries

Antonyms

1 entries

Translations

20 translations across 5 languages.

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Finnish

3 entries
  • jättää kesken verb (to prematurely leave an occasion or event)
  • keskeyttää verb (to prematurely leave an occasion or event)
  • lähteä kesken pois verb (to prematurely leave an occasion or event)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • נָשַׁר verb (to prematurely leave an occasion or event)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • félbehagy verb (to prematurely leave an occasion or event)
  • kimarad verb (to prematurely leave an occasion or event)
  • lemorzsolódik verb (to prematurely leave an occasion or event)
  • otthagy verb (to prematurely leave an occasion or event)

Māori

2 entries
  • makere verb (to prematurely leave an occasion or event)
  • whakamakere verb (to prematurely leave an occasion or event)

Spanish

4 entries
  • abandonar verb (to prematurely leave an occasion or event)
  • apostatar verb (to prematurely leave an occasion or event)
  • darse de baja verb (to prematurely leave an occasion or event)
  • defeccionar verb (to prematurely leave an occasion or event)

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

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Nothing went well in high school, so he dropped out.

Source: wiktionary

He [Bill Gates] dropped out of a better school than I dropped out of.

Source: wiktionary

I’m an unlikely speaker, not just because I dropped out, but because we’re technically in the same generation.

Source: wiktionary

After all this time, the little girl who watched her father get beheaded, who was captured and impressed as her enemy’s servant, who was captured again and taken to the site of her family’s massacre, who enrolled at assassin school, who went blind, who dropped out to pursue vengeance, the woman who endured all that by focusing on her hit list can be swayed from her course by the prospect of her family and her home.

Source: wiktionary

Showing 4 of 11 available sentences.