prescindir
to do without
To forgo, disregard, or dismiss something or someone deemed unnecessary or irrelevant.
Encoding Strategies:
linguistic
pre-
before/beyond
+
escindir
to split off/separate
Prescindir means to do without and can be thought of as pre-0 (beyond0) + escindir1 (to split off1)—to split yourself off from something, i.e. to do without it.
prescindir
to do without, to dispense with
To manage without something or someone; to dispense with or forgo something deemed unnecessary.