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| Shopping | The largest selection of DROP OUT products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| VERB | 1 | drop out, give up, fall by the wayside, drop by the wayside, throw in, throw in the towel, quit, chuck up the sponge | Give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope |
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| 2 | drop out | Leave school or an educational program prematurely |
| Meaning | Give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope. Admit defeat. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
| Synonyms | give up, fall by the wayside, drop by the wayside, throw in, throw in the towel, quit, chuck up the sponge |
| Contrary | enter, participate |
| Meaning | Leave school or an educational program prematurely. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
| Examples | "Many students drop out because they are not prepared for our challenging program" |
| Broader | leave, depart, pull up stakes |
| Nouns | dropout |
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