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dowithout (third-person singular simple presentdoes without,present participledoing without,simple pastdid without,past participledone without)

  1. (chieflytransitive) Tomanage despite thelack of.
    Synonym:dispense with
    Coordinate term:go without
    If you are prepared todo without a break in the summer, we could have a really good skiing holiday in winter.
    During the Great Depression, she learned todo without.
    I coulddo without the sarcasm.
    • 1916 March 11,H.G. Wells, “What is Coming”, inSaturday Evening Post‎[1]:
      Let us consider the charges against this individual. Let us ask, Can wedo without him?
    • 1990 February 4, Pam Mitchell, quoting Gerry Scoppettuolo, “Pro-Union And Queer”, inGay Community News, volume17, number29, page18:
      We never owned a home. We moved all the time. But we neverdid without.
    • 1991 September,Stephen Fry, chapter 1, inThe Liar, London:Heinemann,→ISBN, section I,page16:
      He liked Tom all right.[…] Sampson and Bullock he coulddo without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-typeswot ever to be quitethe thing.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seedo,‎without.
    There's no milk left, so we will have todo without.

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