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give

verb

1 he had given them nearly two thousand pounds:

present with, provide with, supply with, furnish with, gift with;

hand, let someone have;

offer, proffer;

award, grant, bestow, accord, confer;

donate, contribute, put up;

hand over, turn over, make over, leave, will, bequeath, pledge, vouchsafe;

lend, slip;

informal fork out, shell out, lay out, cough up;

British, informal stump up;

North American, informal ante up, pony up.

▷antonyms receive, accept, take; withhold.

2 can I give him a message?:

convey, pass on, impart, communicate, transmit, transfer;

send, deliver, relay, purvey;

tell.

3 a baby given into their care:

entrust, commit, put into someone's hands, consign, assign, render;

formal commend.

4 he gave his life for his country:

sacrifice, give up, relinquish;

devote, dedicate, set aside.

5 he decided to give her time to think things over:

allow, permit, let have, grant, accord;

offer.

6 this leaflet gives our opening times:

show, display, set out, set forth, indicate, detail, give details of, list.

7 the animals became docile and gave no further trouble:

cause, be a source of, make, create, occasion.

8 some salamis are wrapped in garlic which gives additional flavour:

produce, yield, afford, result in;

impart, lend.

9 he gave a drinks party to celebrate:

organize, arrange, lay on, provide, be responsible for;

throw, host, hold, have.

10 Dominic gave a small bow:

perform, execute, carry out;

make, do.

11 she gave a warning shout:

utter, let out, emit;

produce, make.

12 he gave Harry a beating:

administer, deliver, deal;

inflict, impose.

13 the door gave after the fifth push:

give way, cave in, collapse, break, fall apart, come apart;

bend, buckle, sink.

□ give someone or something away

1 his face gave little away:

reveal, disclose, divulge, let slip, leak, let out;

give the game away.

2 Luke would never forgive her if she gave him away:

betray, inform on;

English Law turn Queen's/King's evidence;

informal blow the whistle on, rat on, peach on, sell down the river, squeal on, squeak on;

British, informal grass on, split on, shop, sneak on, stitch up, do the dirty on;

North American, informal rat out, drop a/the dime on, finger, job;

Australian, New Zealand, informal dob on, pimp on, pool, shelf, put someone's pot on, point the bone at.

□ give in

in the end, he was forced to give in:

capitulate, admit/concede defeat, give up, surrender, yield, submit, climb down, back down, give way, defer, acquiesce, relent, succumb, comply;

informal throw in the towel/sponge.

▷antonyms hold out.

□ give something off (also give something out)

a small fire burned, giving off more smoke than heat:

emit, produce, send out, send forth, pour out, throw out;

discharge, release, exude, exhale, vent;

rare exsufflate.

□ give out

1 his strength was giving out:

run out, be used up, be consumed, be exhausted, be depleted, come to an end, fail, flag;

dry up.

2 he gave out that he would hold a meeting:

announce, declare, state, make known, notify, give notice, communicate, broadcast, report, publish;

disclose, reveal, divulge, let it be known.

□ give something out

thousands of leaflets were given out:

distribute, issue, hand out, pass round, dole out, dispense;

mete out;

allocate, allot, apportion, assign, share out, parcel out;

disseminate;

informal dish out.

▷antonyms collect.

□ give rise to

usually this principle would not give rise to any problems:

produce, bring about, cause, occasion, generate, engender, lead to, result in, effect, induce, initiate, start, set off;

contribute to, make for, be conducive to, foster, promote;

provoke, precipitate, breed, spark off, trigger;

literary beget.

□ give up

he isn't the kind of man to give up easily:

admit defeat, concede defeat, stop trying, call it a day, give in, surrender, capitulate, be beaten;

despair, lose heart, abandon hope, give up hope;

informal throw in the towel/sponge;

Australian, informal drop one's bundle.

□ give something up

I'm determined to give up smoking |

she gave up her job:

stop, cease, discontinue, desist from, swear off, forbear from, abstain from, cut out, renounce, forswear, forgo, abandon, have done with;

resign from, stand down from;

informal quit, kick, leave off, knock off, pack in, lay off, jack in, chuck, ditch.

▷antonyms take up; continue.

noun

informal

the jacket has a major drawback—there isn't enough give under the arms:

elasticity, flexibility, stretch, stretchiness;

slack, play.

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