see off

English

Verb

see off (third-person singular simple present sees off, present participle seeing off, simple past saw off, past participle seen off)

1. To accompany someone to a point of departure; to ensure someone departs safely.

   Many friends came to see me off.

2. (British) To defeat.
   • 2011 October 15, Owen Phillips, “Stoke 2 - 0 Fulham”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Jon Walters and Rory Delap scored late goals as Stoke continued their unbeaten home start by seeing off Fulham with a dominant second-half display.

Translations

to accompany someone to a point of departure

• Armenian: ճանապարհել (hy) (čanaparhel)
• Azerbaijani: yola salmaq (az)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 歡送／欢送 (zh) (huānsòng), 欢送 (zh) (huānsòng), 送行 (zh) (sòngxíng)

• Dutch: uitwuiven (nl), uitlaten (nl)
• Finnish: saattaa ulos
• French: accompagner (fr)
• German: begleiten (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: kikísér (hu)
• Italian: accompagnare (it)
• Japanese: 見送る (みおくる, miokuru), 歓送する (ja) (かんそうする, kansō suru)
• Korean: 환송하다 (ko) (hwansonghada), 배웅하다 (bae'unghada)
• Polish: odprowadzać (pl) impf, odprowadzić (pl) pf
• Russian: провожа́ть (ru) impf (provožátʹ), проводи́ть (ru) pf (provodítʹ)
• Spanish: despedirse (es)
• Swedish: vinka av

to defeat — see defeat