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)

To accompany someone to a point of departure; to ensure someone departs safely.
Many friends came to see me off.
(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

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