do without

Definitions

To manage despite the lack of.

transitive

Equivalents

13 more languages

العربيةاستغنى

Bosanskifercihtatiферцихтати

Češtinaobejít

Danskundvære

Ελληνικάστερούμαι

Hrvatskifercihtatiферцихтати

Magyarlemondmegvan

Italianofare a meno

Polskiobyćobywać

Русскийобойтисьобходиться

Српскиfercihtatiферцихтати

Svenskaundvara

Türkçeidare etmek

Examples

“Coordinate term: go without”

“If you are prepared to do without a break⟳ in the summer, we could have⟳ a really good skiing holiday in winter.”

“During the Great Depression, she learned to do without.”

“I could do without the sarcasm.”

“Let⟳ us consider⟳ the charges against this individual. Let⟳ us ask⟳, Can we do without him?”

“We never owned a home. We moved all the time. But we never did without.”

“He liked Tom all right. […] Sampson and Bullock he could do without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing.”

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