Meaning

1 senses

  1. (idiomatic)To become obsolete or outmoded.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Before I reported it here, five to twenty sentences went by the wayside!

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Forms

goes by the wayside, going by the wayside, went by the wayside, gone by the wayside
Base formgo by the wayside · to go by the wayside
3rd person singulargoes by the wayside
Present participlegoing by the wayside
Past simplewent by the wayside
Past participlegone by the wayside

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygo by the wayside
he, she, itgoes by the wayside

Past simpleLesson

all personswent by the wayside

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gone by the wayside
he, she, ithas gone by the wayside

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill go by the wayside

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gnugoA1goagoadgoalA1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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