go without (sth)
— phrasal verb with go uk/ɡəʊ/us/ɡoʊ/verb present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone
C2 to not have something or to manage to live despite not having something:
They were poor as children, and sometimes had to go without.
I'd rather go without food than work for him.
More examples
- There's no ketchup left, so I'm afraid you'll just have to go without.
- Few people can go without water for more than a week.
- How long can they go without food?
- We'd better make sure we buy enough food, we don't want our guests to go without.
- There were not enough clipboards to go round, so Richard went without.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lacking things
- bankrupt
- bankruptcy
- be hard up (for sth) idiom
- bereft
- catch
- cry out for sth
- demand
- hole
- lacking
- need
- need sth like you need a hole in the head idiom
- needful
- needy
- short
- take
- the cupboard is bare idiom
- the UN
- unsatisfied
- vacuum
- want
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