To go without or abstain from all or some kinds of food or drink; to live on a restricted diet. intransitive. More generally: to go without all or…

intransitive. To be without, lack; to cease to have, lose. Cf. sense 18. Obsolete.

intransitive. Without construction. To be in want of something implied by the context; (more generally) to lack the necessaries of life; to be poor…

intransitive. Not to have; to suffer the lack or deprivation of; to dispense with, forgo. Frequently (and in earliest use) with prepositional…

intransitive. To be short of something (now rare). Also with for and †simply, to be in want.

intransitive. To be in need; to be lacking.

intransitive. Scottish. To do without, dispense with. Cf. sense 18c. Obsolete. rare.