PART WITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does part with mean? 

• PART WITH (verb)
  The verb PART WITH has 1 sense:

1. give up what is not strictly needed

  Familiarity information: PART WITH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PART WITH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give up what is not strictly needed

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

dispense with; give up; part with; spare

Context example:

he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey

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 

Its being a gift of my brother's need not make the smallest difference in your accepting it, as I assure you it makes none in my willingness to part with it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And would be sorry to part with them?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A device part with a long, slender, pointed shape.

(Needle Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

“Since they can consent to part with you,” said he, “we may expect philosophy from all the world.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

If there was any word of comfort that would be a solace to her in her dying hour, and only I possessed it, I wouldn't part with it for Life itself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mrs Harville must be an odd mother to part with them so long.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Nor, if you were, could I ever bear to part with you, my Harriet.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

We can imagine that in the confusion of flight something precious, something which he could not bear to part with, had been left behind.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I will part with neither without fight.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Failure of the smooth muscle fibers of the gastrointestinal tract to relax at any one point of junction of one part with another.

(Achalasia, NCI Thesaurus)