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part with en · VERB

Meanings

1. To let go of; to give up; to relinquish.
   • But capital was proving difficult to raise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about to patch up their quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier had staged a torch-light procession to celebrate the passing of the D.N.S.R. Act, were increasingly loath to part with their cash. 1955 February, T. B. Sands, “The Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 79:
   • Celia, for thy sake, I part / With all that grew so near my heart. a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To the Mutable Fair:
   • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see part, with. But they always parted with an increased regard for one another.
   • I really love this new stereo system but I'm not willing to part with the cash to buy it.

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Translations (5)

fi luopua (let go of) · cmn 割捨 /割舍 (let go of) · hu megválik (let go of) · de sich von etw./jdm. trennen (let go of) · fi luovuttaa (let go of)