verb
give up what is not strictly needed
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he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey
• Syn: ↑spare, ↑give up, ↑dispense with
• Hypernyms: ↑give
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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GIVE UP/AWAY, relinquish, forgo, surrender, hand over, deliver up, dispose of.
→ part
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ˈpart with [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they part with he/she/it parts with present participle parting with past tense parted with past participle parted with] phrasal verb
to give something to someone although you would prefer to keep it
I don’t want to part with any of my books.
Thesaurus: general words meaning to givesynonym
Main entry: part
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part with [phrasal verb]
He hated to part with that old car.
parting with a large amount of money
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Main Entry: ↑part
Useful english dictionary. 2012.