give : Idioms & Phrases

• noun making voluntary contributions to aid the poor
  almsgiving.
  

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• verb have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
  run; incline; lean; tend.
  
  • She tends to be nervous before her lectures
  • These dresses run small
  • He inclined to corpulence

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• a conical surface that has any given vertex, and is described by a straight line which moves in such manner that the moment of inertia of the given rigid body about the line is in all its positions the same.

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• verb show no concern or interest; always used in the negative
  give a damn; care a hang; give a hang.
  
  • I don't give a hoot
  • She doesn't give a damn about her job

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• verb show no concern or interest; always used in the negative
  give a damn; care a hang; give a hang.
  
  • I don't give a hoot
  • She doesn't give a damn about her job

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• verb show no concern or interest; always used in the negative
  give a damn; care a hang; give a hang.
  
  • I don't give a hoot
  • She doesn't give a damn about her job

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• verb make mutual concessions
  
  • In life you have to give and take

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• verb make a gift of
  
  • She gave away her antique furniture
• verb make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
  disclose; reveal; unwrap; bring out; expose; let on; discover; divulge; break; let out.
  
  • The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold
  • The actress won't reveal how old she is
  • bring out the truth
  • he broke the news to her
  • unwrap the evidence in the murder case
• verb formally hand over to the bridegroom in marriage; of a bride by her father
  
• verb give away information about somebody
  shop; denounce; tell on; stag; rat; betray; snitch; grass; shit.
  
  • He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam

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• verb pay back
  refund; repay; return.
  
  • Please refund me my money

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• verb cause to be born
  have; deliver; birth; bear.
  
  • My wife had twins yesterday!
• verb create or produce an idea
  
  • Marx and Engels gave birth to communism

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• verb provide care for
  care.
  
  • The nurse was caring for the wounded

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• verb go after with the intent to catch
  go after; chase after; track; dog; trail; tail; tag; chase.
  
  • The policeman chased the mugger down the alley
  • the dog chased the rabbit

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• verb give heed (to)
  advert; hang; attend; pay heed.
  
  • The children in the audience attended the recital quietly
  • She hung on his every word
  • They attended to everything he said

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• verb give out (breath or an odor)
  exhale; emanate.
  
  • The chimney exhales a thick smoke

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• verb perform a task as well as possible
  do one's best; go all out; give full measure.
  
  • The cast gives full measure every night

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• verb yield to another's wish or opinion
  defer; accede; submit; bow.
  
  • The government bowed to the military pressure
• verb consent reluctantly
  knuckle under; succumb; yield; buckle under.
  

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• verb try
  give it a try.
  
  • let's give it a whirl!
• verb make an attempt at something
  have a go.
  
  • I never sat on a horse before but I'll give it a go

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• verb try
  give it a try.
  
  • let's give it a whirl!

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• verb toss out; get rid of
  deep-six.
  
  • deep-six these old souvenirs!

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• verb terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
  give the axe; send away; fire; dismiss; terminate; displace; sack; give notice; force out; can.
  
  • The boss fired his secretary today
  • The company terminated 25% of its workers
• verb inform (somebody) of something
  apprize; send word; apprise; notify; advise.
  
  • I advised him that the rent was due

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• verb have as a by-product
  
  • The big cities gave off so many wonderful American qualities
• verb give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.
  emit; give off.
  
  • The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits

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• verb perform a task as well as possible
  do one's best; go all out; give full measure.
  
  • The cast gives full measure every night

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• adverb plus or minus a small amount
  
  • it is a mile away, give or take a few hundred yards

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• verb give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.
  emit; give off.
  
  • The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits
• verb give to several people
  pass out; distribute; hand out.
  
  • The teacher handed out the exams
• verb prove insufficient
  fail; run out.
  
  • The water supply for the town failed after a long drought
• verb stop operating or functioning
  die; give out; break; go; go bad; conk out; fail; break down.
  
  • The engine finally went
  • The car died on the road
  • The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
  • The coffee maker broke
  • The engine failed on the way to town
  • her eyesight went after the accident

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• verb cause to happen, occur or exist
  produce; bring about.
  
  • This procedure produces a curious effect
  • The new law gave rise to many complaints
  • These chemicals produce a noxious vapor
  • the new President must bring about a change in the health care system

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• verb give suck to
  wet-nurse; suckle; breastfeed; lactate; suck; nurse.
  
  • The wetnurse suckled the infant
  • You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places

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• verb express gratitude or show appreciation to
  thank.
  

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• verb terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
  give the axe; send away; fire; dismiss; terminate; displace; sack; give notice; force out; can.
  
  • The boss fired his secretary today
  • The company terminated 25% of its workers
• verb terminate a relationship abruptly
  give the bounce; give the axe.
  
  • Mary gave John the axe after she saw him with another woman

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• verb terminate a relationship abruptly
  give the bounce; give the axe.
  
  • Mary gave John the axe after she saw him with another woman

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• verb look at with a critical eye
  give the eye.
  
  • When the movie star entered, all the women gave him the once over

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• verb terminate a relationship abruptly
  give the bounce; give the axe.
  
  • Mary gave John the axe after she saw him with another woman

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• verb look seductively at someone
  

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• verb look at with a critical eye
  give the eye.
  
  • When the movie star entered, all the women gave him the once over

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• verb terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
  give the axe; send away; fire; dismiss; terminate; displace; sack; give notice; force out; can.
  
  • The boss fired his secretary today
  • The company terminated 25% of its workers

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• verb articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise
  utter; express; verbalise; verbalize.
  
  • She expressed her anger
  • He uttered a curse

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• verb lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime
  throw overboard; forego; forfeit; waive; forgo.
  
  • you've forfeited your right to name your successor
  • forfeited property
• verb give up with the intent of never claiming again
  abandon.
  
  • Abandon your life to God
  • She gave up her children to her ex-husband when she moved to Tahiti
  • We gave the drowning victim up for dead
• verb give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
  quit; throw in; drop out; throw in the towel; chuck up the sponge; fall by the wayside; drop by the wayside.
  
  • In the second round, the challenger gave up
• verb put an end to a state or an activity
  quit; discontinue; lay off; stop; cease.
  
  • Quit teasing your little brother
• verb give up what is not strictly needed
  dispense with; spare; part with.
  
  • he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey
• verb part with a possession or right
  release; relinquish; free; resign.
  
  • I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest
  • resign a claim to the throne
• verb leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
  vacate; resign; renounce.
  
  • She vacated the position when she got pregnant
  • The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds
• verb relinquish possession or control over
  cede; surrender; deliver.
  
  • The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in
• verb give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another
  surrender.
  
  • The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered
• verb stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims
  abandon.
  
  • He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage
  • Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations
• verb allow the other (baseball) team to score
  allow.
  
  • give up a run
• verb stop consuming
  kick.
  
  • kick a habit
  • give up alcohol

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• verb give expression or utterance to
  vent; ventilate.
  
  • She vented her anger
  • The graduates gave vent to cheers

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• verb put into words or an expression
  phrase; articulate; word; formulate.
  
  • He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees

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• verb move in order to make room for someone for something
  ease up; move over; yield; give.
  
  • The park gave way to a supermarket
  • `Move over,' he told the crowd
• verb break down, literally or metaphorically
  collapse; founder; give; break; cave in; fall in.
  
  • The wall collapsed
  • The business collapsed
  • The dam broke
  • The roof collapsed
  • The wall gave in
  • The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice
• verb end resistance, as under pressure or force
  yield.
  
  • The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram
• verb stop operating or functioning
  die; give out; break; go; go bad; conk out; fail; break down.
  
  • The engine finally went
  • The car died on the road
  • The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
  • The coffee maker broke
  • The engine failed on the way to town
  • her eyesight went after the accident

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• noun a basketball maneuver; one offensive player passes the ball to another, then runs toward the basket to take a return pass
  

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• noun an exchange of views on some topic
  word; discussion.
  
  • we had a good discussion
  • we had a word or two about it
• noun light teasing repartee
  banter; raillery; backchat.
  
• noun mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
  interchange; reciprocation.
  

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• verb pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
  decease; pop off; perish; die; buy the farm; snuff it; choke; drop dead; pass away; expire; exit; croak; pass; go; kick the bucket; conk; cash in one's chips.
  
  • She died from cancer
  • The children perished in the fire
  • The patient went peacefully
  • The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102

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• noun the name that precedes the surname
  first name; forename.
  

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• noun the process of giving birth
  birth; parturition; birthing.
  

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• noun the act of administering medication
  administration.
  

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• noun a verbal act of admitting defeat
  surrender; yielding.
  
• noun the act of forsaking
  forsaking.
  

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• adjective satellite giving or having the power to give life and spirit
  vitalizing.
  
  • returning the life-giving humus to the land"- Louis Bromfield
  • life-giving love and praise
  • the vitalizing rays of the warming sun

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Life"-giv`ing adjective

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1. Giving life or spirit; having power to give life; inspiriting; invigorating.

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• . (a) To rush; to fall upon. Obs. (b) To have a view of; to be in sight of; to overlook; to look toward; to open upon; to front; to face. A Gallicism: cf. Fr. donner sur.

  Rooms which gave upon a pillared porch. Tennyson.

  The gloomy staircase on which the grating gave. Dickens.

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• adjective satellite willing to deprive yourself
  self-sacrificing; self-denying.
  

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• to die; to expire.

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• See under Come, Do, Give, etc.

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• to exert one's self; to make interested and earnest endeavor.

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• to keep at a distance from it.

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• to let go, or to give up, control; to free from restraint; to give license. "He gave his able horse the head." Shak. "He has so long given his unruly passions their head." South.

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• (Mil.), to accept as prisoner, on submission in battle; to forbear to kill, as a vanquished enemy.

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• to furnish an occasion or means.

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• to give freedom.

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• to allow him more or less liberty until it is convenient to stop or check him, like a hooked fish that swims away with the line.

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• to speak plainly, bluntly, or severely to (another). Tackeray.

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• to attempt.

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• . (a) To average gains and losses. (b) To exchange freely, as blows, sarcasms, etc.

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• to listen; to admit to an interview.

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• to make over to another; to transfer.

  Whatsoever we employ in charitable uses during our lives, is given away from ourselves. Atterbury.

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• to return; to restore. Atterbury.
• to recede; to retire; to retreat.

  They gave back and came no farther. Bunyan.

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• to attack an enemy.

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• . (a) To bear or bring forth, as a child. (b) To originate; to give existence to, as an enterprise, idea.

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• to pursue.

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• to listen to; to heed, as advice or one advising. "Give ear unto my song." Goldsmith.

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• to make valid; to carry out in practice; to push to its results.

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• to give out; to publish; to tell. Hayward.

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• to recede; to yield advantage.

  These nine . . . began to give me ground. Shak.

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• . (a) To abate; to deduct. (b) To declare; to make known; to announce; to tender; as, to give in one's adhesion to a party.
• to yield; to succumb; to acknowledge one's self beaten; to cease opposition.

  The Scots battalion was enforced to give in. Hayward.

  This consideration may induce a translator to give in to those general phrases. Pope.

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• . See under Line.

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• to emit, as steam, vapor, odor, etc.
• to cease; to forbear. Obs. Locke.

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• to give one liberty or license; to let one go at will uncheked.

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• to disappoint him. Obs.

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• to treat one with neglect.

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• to make a fool of him. Archaic

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• to accuse one pointedly of lying abominably.

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• to slip away from one; to elude one.

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• to cause one to know.

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• to make an inconsiderate surrender of one's cause, an unintentional disclosure of one's purposes, or the like. Colloq.

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• to abandon hope; to despair; to surrender one's self.

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• to give command or directions. Shak.

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• . (a) To utter publicly; to report; to announce or declare.

  One that gives out himself Prince Florizel.

  Shak.

  Give out you are of Epidamnum. Shak.

  (b) To send out; to emit; to distribute; as, a substance gives out steam or odors.
• . (a) To expend all one's strength. Hence: (b) To cease from exertion; to fail; to be exhausted; as, my feet being to give out; the flour has given out.

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• . (a) To yield completely; to quit; to abandon. (b) To despair of. (c) To addict, resign, or apply (one's self).

  The Babylonians had given themselves over to all manner of vice. Grew.

• to cease; to discontinue; to desist.

  It would be well for all authors, if they knew when to give over, and to desist from any further pursuits after fame. Addison.

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• to withdraw; to yield one's claim.
• to make room; to yield; to give way; to give advantage. "Neither give place to the devil." Eph. iv. 27. "Let all the rest give place." Shak.

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• . (a) In games of skill, to equalize chances by conceding a certain advantage; to allow a handicap. (b) To give useful suggestions. Colloq.

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• to put in another's power or occupancy.

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• . See under Rein, n.

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• to give license to; to leave withouut restrain.

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• to withdraw; to leave or provide space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated.

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• to cheat. Obs.

  I fear our ears have given us the bag. J. Webster.

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• to pledge friendship or faith.

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• to espouse; to bestow in marriage.

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• . See under Head, n.

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• (a person), to tell (him) that he lies.
• . (a) To charge with falsehood; as, the man gave him the lie. (b) To reveal to be false; as, a man's actions may give the lie to his words.

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• to dismiss as a lover; to reject the suit of. Colloq.

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• . Same as To give the bag.

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• to discharge, or be discharged, from employment; to jilt, or be jilted. Slang

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• to salute one with the compliment appropriate to the hour, as "good morning." "good evening", etc.

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• to give a premium for extravagance in falsehood. Obs.

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• (Law), to accord extension or forbearance to a debtor. Abbott.

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• to give or take (a woman) in marriage.

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• in hunter's phrase, to bark; said of dogs.

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• . (a) To abandon; to surrender. "Don't give up the ship."

  He has . . . given up For certain drops of salt, your city Rome. Shak.

  (b) To make public; to reveal.

  I'll not state them By giving up their characters. Beau. & Fl.

  (c) (Used also reflexively. )
• to cease from effort; to yield; to despair; as, he would never give up.

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• . See under Ghost.

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• to suffer to escape; to let out; to pour forth; as, to give vent to anger.

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• . (a) To withdraw; to give place. (b) To yield to force or pressure; as, the scaffolding gave way. (c) (Naut.) To begin to row; or to row with increased energy. (d) (Stock Exchange). To depreciate or decline in value; as, railroad securities gave way two per cent.

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• to row in time; to keep stroke.

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