fall by the wayside
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› If someone falls by the wayside, they fail to finish an activity, and if something falls by the wayside, people stop doing it, making it, or using it: So why does one company survive a recession while its competitors fall by the wayside?Stop having or doing something
(Definition of fall by the wayside from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Belongings and possessions
- Capturing or taking possession of things
- Collecting and amassing
- Getting, receiving and accepting
- Giving, bringing or getting back
- Having and owning - general words
- Having in your hands
- Keeping and storing things
- Reciprocating
- Removing and getting rid of things
- Taking and choosing
- Taking things away from someone or somewhere
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Synonyms and related words:
- abdicate verb (KING/QUEEN)
- abdicate verb (NOT DO)
- break with sth phrasal verb
- cede verb
- chuck sth in phrasal verb
- forfeit adjective
- forfeit noun
- forgo verb
- forsake verb (STOP)
- forswear verb
- grow out of sth phrasal verb (INTEREST)
- kick the habit idiom
- lay off (sth/sb) phrasal verb
- leave go/hold of sth idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth) phrasal verb
- let up phrasal verb (STOP)
- renounce verb
- renunciation noun
- sacrifice verb (GIVE UP)
- turn your back on sth idiom
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