drop out
Quit before finishing
To drop out is to withdraw from participation—typically from school before completing a degree: He dropped out of college to start a company.
The phrase extends to withdrawing from mainstream society or conventional pursuits: She dropped out and joined a commune.
A dropout is a person who has left school or abandoned conventional life.
Drop-out as an adjective describes this withdrawal: the drop-out rate.
Cease doing something
- leaveSanctioned time away
- abandonLeave behind permanently
- exitWay to leave
- resignVoluntarily leave office
disengage · discontinue · stop · cease · retreat · step back · give up · walk away
Act of taking away
- unenrollCancel one's registration
- tuitionPayment for instruction
- semesterHalf academic year
- studentOne formally enrolled somewhere
college · university · academia · enrollment · credits · transcript · degree · financial aid
Sever from power source
- offlineNot internet-connected
- detachTo separate from
- isolateSeparate from others
- disengageBreak free from attachment
off-grid · solitude · recluse · hermit · incommunicado · retreat · digital detox · withdraw
Lose through violation
- retireCease employment permanently
- scratchSuperficial wound or mark
- DNFFailed to complete
- withdrawRemove or pull away
concede · eliminated · disqualified · injured · default · no-show · race · marathon
Sixties counterculture member
- bohemianArtistic nonconformist type
- nonconformityRejection of prevailing norms
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
- communeShared-living community
alternative lifestyle · reject · mainstream · beatnik · unconventionality · fringe · outsider · tune in
quit
Cease doing something
resign · disengage · discontinue · stop · cease · retreat · step back · give up · walk away · bail
withdrawal
Act of taking away
student · college · university · academia · enrollment · credits · transcript · degree · financial aid · scholarship
unplug
Sever from power source
disengage · off-grid · solitude · recluse · hermit · incommunicado · retreat · digital detox · withdraw · disappear
forfeit
Lose through violation
withdraw · concede · eliminated · disqualified · injured · default · no-show · race · marathon · tournament
hippie
Sixties counterculture member
- bohemianArtistic nonconformist type
- nonconformityRejection of prevailing norms
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
commune · alternative lifestyle · reject · mainstream · beatnik · unconventionality · fringe · outsider · tune in · turn on
- phrasal verbspick up, look at, put down, turn on, turn off
- quittingquit, resign, resignation, stop, end
- leavingdeparture, quit, walking away, withdrawing, bail
- countercultureflower power, flower children, free love, hippie communes, Summer of Love
- campusdorm, dormitory, dormitories, dorms, quad
- disconnectingdetaching, disconnect, disengaging, detach, disconnecting
drop outgraduate
One who earned degree
complete · matriculate · see it through · finish · pass
drop outconform
Behave as expected
buy in · integrate · assimilate · play by the rules · toe the line