sideline

1. 1.

   remove from the center of activity or attention; place into an inferior position

   “The outspoken cabinet member was sidelined by the President”

   Broaderdemote

Other forms of sideline

plural

sidelines·

past tense

sidelined·

present participle

sidelining·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sideline

What does sideline mean?

sideline means "a line that marks the side boundary of a playing field". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sideline?

sideline has 2 syllables: side-line. The stress falls on "side". In IPA it is /ˈsaɪdˌlaɪn/.

What is another word for sideline?

Close synonyms include out of bounds, avocation, by-line, hobby, pursuit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sideline a common word?

sideline is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sideline?

34 words rhyme with sideline. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.