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View synonyms for do without

do without

verb

  1. to forgo; manage without

    I can't do without cigarettes

  2. not to require (uncalled-for comments or advice)

    we can do without your criticisms thank you

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Manage in spite of being without something. For example, They will just have to do without a vacation this year , or There was no telephone in the cabin, but we soon learned to do without . [Early 1700s]
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Example Sentences

It was a dwelling place of unusual pretentiousness for that land of "Do-without," where inexorable meagerness is the rule of life.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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