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PART WITH
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Give up what is not strictly needed
Example:
he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey
Synonyms:
dispense with; give up; part with; spare
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "part with" is one way to...):
give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
I know of no opportunity afforded him for so doing; or, if I had, why should he have stolen the jewel, to part with it again so soon?
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Then he offered the dwarfs money, and prayed and besought them to let him take her away; but they said, “We will not part with her for all the gold in the world.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
But look at these lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Pray do, my dear Miss Lucas,” she added in a melancholy tone, “for nobody is on my side, nobody takes part with me. I am cruelly used, nobody feels for my poor nerves.”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He, who apprehended I could not live a month, was ready enough to part with me, and demanded a thousand pieces of gold, which were ordered him on the spot, each piece being about the bigness of eight hundred moidores; but allowing for the proportion of all things between that country and Europe, and the high price of gold among them, was hardly so great a sum as a thousand guineas would be in England.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Mrs. Dashwood had never been so much pleased with any young women in her life, as she was with them; had given each of them a needle book made by some emigrant; called Lucy by her Christian name; and did not know whether she should ever be able to part with them.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Your sister does not part with the queen.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
““Unless he brings me back a lady,”” said Mr. Peggotty, tracing out that part with his finger.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Because, sire, it is not for you to take part with Gascons against English, or with English against Gascons, seeing that you are lord of both.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I never could comprehend how Mr. Weston could part with him.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
