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go without

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go without (third-person singular simple present goes without, present participle going without, simple past went without, past participle gone without) (idiomatic, transitive, intransitive)

  1. To forgo (something).
    If you forgot to bring your toothpaste, you'll have to go without.
  2. To lack or be deprived of (something).
    The poor man's children went without supper.
    • 2016, K.A. Morini, Amanda Beth Randall, “Little House on the Pond”, in The Book: The Story of Red Tail Hawk: One Family’s Journey Through Addiction, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN, page 54:
      Jamie would get upset growing up over all the times she, or we, went without, but, looking back, we can see that that was what made us tough.
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