go without
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editgo without (third-person singular simple present goes without, present participle going without, simple past went without, past participle gone without) (idiomatic, transitive, intransitive)
- To forgo (something).
- If you forgot to bring your toothpaste, you'll have to go without.
- 1949, Cecil Beaton, “[Home and Abroad, 1948–51] Tangier”, in Richard Buckle, editor, Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926–1974, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, published 1979, →ISBN, page 223:
- For days he will go without shaving, for months he lets his toenails grow; […]
- 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.