Give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat.
1 Now and again a man utterly worn out would drop by the wayside .
2 Sixpence dropped by the wayside , and a whole family made wretched!
3 I was one of the twenty-seven; eight dropped by the wayside ; we ended nineteen.
4 Clemens was handicapped by having to run in the slippery mud, and soon " dropped by the wayside . "
5 The fellows who are going to stick would simply feel that one weak-kneed chap had dropped by the wayside .
6 One by one our fellow-enumerators had dropped by the wayside , some by mutual agreement, some without any agreement whatever.
7 When she returned to the soldier she gathered up the flowers which she had dropped by the wayside , and timidly offered them to him.
8 Meanwhile Washburn had dropped by the wayside to me 6-2, 6-2 and young Richards and I took up our annual battle.
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