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do without

Variant of without

adverb

  1. on the outside; externally
  2. outside a building or place; out-of-doors

  1. Now Rare at, on, to, or toward the outside of: throngs within and without the city walls
  2. Archaic beyond: without his reach
  3. not with; lacking; not accompanied by: a shirt without buttons, lonely without her
  4. free from: without fear
  5. with avoidance of: to pass by without speaking
  6. Obsolete besides

noun

Now Rare the outside or the exterior

conjunction

Dialectal unless: they can't go, without they get permission

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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