see off

see off

English

Verb

see off (third-person singular simple present sees off, present participle seeing off, simple past saw off, past participle seen off)

1. To accompany someone to a point of departure; to ensure someone departs safely.

   Many friends came to see me off.

2. (Britain) To defeat.
   • 2011 October 15, Owen Phillips, “Stoke 2 - 0 Fulham”, in BBC Sport‎:

     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.

Translations

to accompany someone to a point of departure

Armenian: ճանապարհել (hy) (čanaparhel) Azerbaijani: yola salmaq (az) Chinese: Mandarin: 歡送 (zh), 欢送 (zh) (huānsòng), 送行 (zh) (sòngxíng) Dutch: uitwuiven (nl), uitlaten (nl) Finnish: saattaa ulos French: accompagner (fr) German: begleiten (de)

Hungarian: kikísér (hu) Italian: accompagnare (it) Japanese: 見送る (みおくる, miokuru), 歓送する (ja) (かんそうする, kansō suru) Korean: 환송하다 (ko) (hwansonghada), 배웅하다 (bae-unghada) Polish: odprowadzać (pl) impf, odprowadzić (pl) pf Russian: провожа́ть (ru) impf (provožátʹ), проводи́ть (ru) pf (provodítʹ) Swedish: vinka av

to defeat — see defeat