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without
[ with-out, with- ]
preposition
- with the absence, omission, or avoidance of; not with; with no or none of; lacking:
without help; without shoes; without her helping me; without him to help.
- free from; excluding:
a world without hunger.
- not accompanied by:
Don't go without me.
- at, on, or to the outside of; outside of:
both within and without the house or the city.
- beyond the compass, limits, range, or scope of (now used chiefly in opposition to within ):
whether within or without the law.
adverb
- in or into an exterior or outer place; outside.
- outside a house, building, etc.:
The carriage awaits without.
- lacking something implied or understood:
We must take this or go without.
- as regards the outside; externally.
noun
- the outside of a place, region, area, room, etc.
conjunction
- Midland and Southern U.S. unless.
without
/ wɪˈðaʊt /
preposition
- not having
a traveller without much money
- not accompanied by
he came without his wife
- not making use of
it is not easy to undo screws without a screwdriver
- foll by a verbal noun or noun phrase not, while not, or after not
she can sing for two minutes without drawing breath
- archaic.on the outside of
adverb
- formal.outside; outwardly
conjunction
- not_standard.unless
don't come without you have some money
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- absent without leave
- do without
- get along without
- go without saying
- no smoke without fire
Example Sentences
Without it, they say, the disease would surely kill her within two years.
Most often, the doctrine is invoked by minors seeking an abortion without parental consent.
The research literature, too, asks these questions, and not without reason.
Then they came up against a police patrol on mountain bicycles, which again led to more shooting, without injuries.
I remember all our music appeared on Spotify overnight, without anybody asking us.
He held it, but it was without pressure; without recognizance of the delight with which he once grasped it.
Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.
She had listened—she had listened intently, looking straight out of the window and without moving.
Without preface, he abruptly asked, what had been told him of the Duke of Wharton's behaviour the preceding night.
Nevertheless the evening and the night passed away without incident.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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