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“see sb off” in English

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— phrasal verb with see uk /siː/ us /siː/ verb present participle seeing, past tense saw, past participle seen

B2 to go to the place that someone is leaving from in order to say goodbye to them:

My parents saw me off at the airport.

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› UK to send away someone who is attacking you or who is not wanted, usually forcefully:

The caretaker ran out and saw off the boys who had been damaging the fence.

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(Definition of “see sb off” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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