From en.wiktionary.org:
[dropout]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
*** Verb
[*]
1. [en] To leave (school, a race, etc.) prematurely and voluntarily.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * {{ quote-journal
|en |date=July 23, 2017 |author=Brandon Nowalk |title=The great game begins
with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies) |work=The Onion AV Club
|url=http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/great-game-begins-bang-game-thrones-newbies-258485
|page= |passage=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.}}
1. * [en-GB]
2. To opt out of conventional society.
3. [en] To be lost or momentarily interrupted.
4. [en]
5. * [passage=Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off and your eyes DROP OUT and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.]
6. [en] To give way under someone.
7. [en] To cause someone to slip and/or fall down.
8. [en] To dismiss, break up with or abandon (someone).
**** Usage notes
- Often used with [en] : “drop out of the race”
**** Derived terms
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**** Related terms
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**** Translations
[to prematurely leave an occasion or event]
- Finnish: [fi] [event] , [fi] , [fi] [e.g. studies]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] [from an event] , [hu] , [hu] [from studies]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to opt out of conventional society]
- Finnish: [fi] [+ elative]
- German: [de]
- Spanish: [es]
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**** See also
- [en]
*** Anagrams
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