Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To say goodbye to, to bid farewell.
Usage examples of "bid adieu".
We did not now bid adieu to our native country, to the graves of those we loved, to the flowers, and streams, and trees, which had lived beside us from infancy.
When all things were ready for a start, he went to bid adieu to his friends and to take a parting dram with them.
For as the swift monster drags you deeper and deeper into the frantic shoal, you bid adieu to circumspect life and only exist in a delirious throb.
The boat-swain talked over the matter with the other warrant officers, till the grog was all gone, and then dismissed it as too dry a subject: and it was the general opinion of the ship's company, that as soon as they arrived at Gibraltar Bay, our hero would bid adieu to the service, either by being sentenced by a court--martial, or by being dismissed, and towed on shore on a grating.