go without
Deprive oneself voluntarily
Go without means to manage in the absence of something, typically something desired or normally expected.
You might go without sleep, go without a meal, or go without luxuries during hard times.
The phrase emphasizes endurance or deprivation: We went without heat that winter.
It can also mean to forgo voluntarily: I'll go without dessert tonight.
forgo
Deliberately do without
sacrifice · renounce · waive · relinquish · eschew · resist · shun · spurn · pass up · skip
scarcity
Insufficiency of something needed
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- wantTo desire something
necessity · poverty · suffering · lack · neediness · hunger · privation · insufficiency · dearth · paucity
- abstinencesobriety, celibacy, chastity, teetotalism, fasting
- frugalityfrugality, thrift, frugal, penny-pinching, economize