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see off en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. To accompany someone to a point of departure; to ensure someone departs safely.
   • We saw off a close friend at the airport.
   • During the interval my friend, who was seeing me off, observing a wheel-tapper at his work, and having the incredulity which decides that there can be no practical outcome of this mysterious operation, asked me what did happen if the wheel-tapper discovered anything amiss. 1939 July, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 20:
   • Many friends came to see me off.
2. (UK) To defeat; to get rid of.
   • You Keep Fucking Me is one of the highlights of a new exhibition of her paintings, all of them created since her diagnosis with a cancer that should, by rights, have seen her off. 2024 May 29, Simon Hattenstone, “The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
   • Only four units (455704/726/736/740) are yet scrapped, but the new Class 701s will soon see them all off. 2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 40:
   • Jon Walters and Rory Delap scored late goals as Stoke continued their unbeaten home start by seeing off Fulham with a dominant second-half display. 2011 October 15, Owen Phillips, “Stoke 2 - 0 Fulham”, in BBC Sport:
   • A salesman came to my door, but the dogs soon saw him off.

Forms

Translations (35)

ar وَدَّعَ (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · es despedirse (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · pl odprowadzać (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · cmn 送行 (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · uk проводжа́ти (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · fr accompagner (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · hu kikísér (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · ba оҙатыу (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · be право́дзіць (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · it accompagnare (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · izh saattaa (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · hy ճանապարհել (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · az yola salmaq (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · mn ᠦᠳᠡᠬᠦ (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · pl odprowadzić (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · ko 배웅하다 (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · cmn 歡送 /欢送 (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · sv vinka av (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · cmn 送 (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · ko 환송하다 (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · nl uitlaten (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · mnc ᡶᡠᡩᡝᠮᠪᡳ (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · mn үдэх (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · ja 見送る (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · ja 歓送する (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · uk провести́ (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · fi saattaa ulos (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · nl uitwuiven (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · be праве́сці (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · uk прово́дити (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · ru провожа́ть (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · ar رَافَقَ (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · udm келяны (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · de begleiten (to accompany someone to a point of departure) · ru проводи́ть (to accompany someone to a point of departure)