Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sideline
Participle: sidelined
Gerund: sidelining
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | sideline |
| you | sideline |
| he;she;it | sidelines |
| we | sideline |
| you | sideline |
| they | sideline |
Perfect
| I | have sidelined |
| you | have sidelined |
| he;she;it | has sidelined |
| we | have sidelined |
| you | have sidelined |
| they | have sidelined |
Past
| I | sidelined |
| you | sidelined |
| he;she;it | sidelined |
| we | sidelined |
| you | sidelined |
| they | sidelined |
Pluperfect
| I | had sidelined |
| you | had sidelined |
| he;she;it | had sidelined |
| we | had sidelined |
| you | had sidelined |
| they | had sidelined |
Future
| I | will sideline |
| you | will sideline |
| he;she;it | will sideline |
| we | will sideline |
| you | will sideline |
| they | will sideline |
Future Perfect
| I | will have sidelined |
| you | will have sidelined |
| he;she;it | will have sidelined |
| we | will have sidelined |
| you | will have sidelined |
| they | will have sidelined |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sideline |
| you | sideline |
| he;she;it | sideline |
| we | sideline |
| you | sideline |
| they | sideline |
Perfect
| I | have sidelined |
| you | have sidelined |
| he;she;it | have sidelined |
| we | have sidelined |
| you | have sidelined |
| they | have sidelined |
Imperfect
| I | sidelined |
| you | sidelined |
| he;she;it | sidelined |
| we | sidelined |
| you | sidelined |
| they | sidelined |
Pluperfect
| I | had sidelined |
| you | had sidelined |
| he;she;it | had sidelined |
| we | had sidelined |
| you | had sidelined |
| they | had sidelined |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sideline |
| you | would sideline |
| he;she;it | would sideline |
| we | would sideline |
| you | would sideline |
| they | would sideline |
Perfect
| I | would have sidelined |
| you | would have sidelined |
| he;she;it | would have sidelined |
| we | would have sidelined |
| you | would have sidelined |
| they | would have sidelined |
Imperative
| you | sideline |
| we | Let's sideline |
| you | sideline |
Verbs conjugated like 'sideline'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'sideline'
side-line,
deline,
pipeline,
sidewind,
timeline,
baseline,
beeline,
blueline,
codefine,
dateline,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From side + line.
Sample Sentences
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The coach sidelined the player until he regained his strength.
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Gomez got his chance with Gary Cahill sidelined and took it superbly with an assured performance as part of a three-man defence Southgate now looks certain to use at the World Cup. [2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-0 Brazil”, in BBC News:]
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The illness sidelined him for weeks.
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Subplots that might have been fun to explore were relegated or eventually sidelined altogether in the case of characters like Gendry, who disappeared for years and finally resurfaces as a blacksmith in King’s Landing, literally waiting for the call to his hero’s journey. [2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:]
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During 1971-72, spare Type 4s on other regions enabled the whole class to be sidelined, with Class 43s going first. [2022 January 12, David Clough, “From Germany with love: a Warship retrospective”, in RAIL, number 948, page 49:]
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Prigozhin’s exclusion from Ukraine would sideline one of Russia’s most recognisable war figures. [2023 June 14, Pjotr Sauer, Andrew Roth, “Putin sides with military chiefs over placing Wagner under direct control”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
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At National Review, he [William Buckley] got rid of the Birchites—a conspirational fringe claiming Eisenhower for a communist—tamed the libertarians, dropped (eventually) the magazine's white racism and sidelined its antisemites. [2025 June 14, Edmund Fawcett, “Writing the right”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8:]