DO WITHOUT


Meaning of DO WITHOUT in English

1.

If you ~ something you need, want, or usually have, you are able to survive, continue, or succeed although you do not have it.

We can’t ~ the help of your organisation...

We’ve had a bit more money and that, and the baby doesn’t ~.

PHRASAL VERB: V P n, V P

2.

If you say that you could ~ something, you mean that you would prefer not to have it or it is of no benefit to you. (INFORMAL)

He could ~ her rhetorical questions at five o’clock in the morning.

PHRASAL VERB: V P n

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