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without

Translation
without
/widh owt", with-/, prep.
1. 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.
2. free from; excluding: a world without hunger.
3. not accompanied by: Don't go without me.
4. at, on, or to the outside of; outside of: both within and without the house or the city.
5. beyond the compass, limits, range, or scope of (now used chiefly in opposition to within): whether within or without the law.
adv.
6. in or into an exterior or outer place; outside.
7. outside a house, building, etc.: The carriage awaits without.
8. lacking something implied or understood: We must take this or go without.
9. as regards the outside; externally.
n.
10. the outside of a place, region, area, room, etc.
11. Midland and Southern U.S. unless.
[bef. 900; ME withouten, OE withutan (adv. and prep.), equiv. to with WITH + -utan from without, equiv. to ut OUT + -an suffix of motion from]

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