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Give   /gɪv/   Listen
Give

verb
(past gave; past part. given; pres. part. giving)
1.
Cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense.  "The draft gave me a cold"
2.
Be the cause or source of.  Synonyms: afford, yield.  "Our meeting afforded much interesting information"
3.
Transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody.  "Can you give me lessons?" , "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care"  Antonym: take.
4.
Convey or reveal information.
5.
Convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow.  Synonym: pay.  "Give the orders" , "Give him my best regards" , "Pay attention"
6.
Organize or be responsible for.  Synonyms: have, hold, make, throw.  "Have, throw, or make a party" , "Give a course"
7.
Convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture.  Synonym: throw.  "She gave me a dirty look"
8.
Give as a present; make a gift of.  Synonyms: gift, present.
9.
Cause to happen or be responsible for.  Synonym: yield.
10.
Dedicate.  Synonyms: devote, pay.  "Give priority to" , "Pay attention to"
11.
Give or supply.  Synonyms: generate, render, return, yield.  "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn" , "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
12.
Transmit (knowledge or skills).  Synonyms: impart, leave, pass on.  "Leave your name and address here" , "Impart a new skill to the students"
13.
Bring about.  Synonym: establish.
14.
Leave with; give temporarily.  "Can I give you the children for the weekend?"
15.
Emit or utter.  "Give a yelp"
16.
Endure the loss of.  Synonym: sacrifice.  "I gave two sons to the war"
17.
Place into the hands or custody of.  Synonyms: hand, pass, pass on, reach, turn over.  "Turn the files over to me, please" , "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"
18.
Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.  Synonyms: commit, consecrate, dedicate, devote.  "Give one's talents to a good cause" , "Consecrate your life to the church"
19.
Give (as medicine).
20.
Give or convey physically.  Synonym: apply.  "I gave him a punch in the nose"
21.
Bestow.  Synonym: render.  "Render thanks"
22.
Bestow, especially officially.  Synonym: grant.  "Give a divorce" , "This bill grants us new rights"
23.
Move in order to make room for someone for something.  Synonyms: ease up, give way, move over, yield.  "'Move over,' he told the crowd"
24.
Give food to.  Synonym: feed.  "Don't give the child this tough meat"  Antonym: starve.
25.
Contribute to some cause.  Synonyms: chip in, contribute, kick in.
26.
Break down, literally or metaphorically.  Synonyms: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give way.  "The business collapsed" , "The dam broke" , "The roof collapsed" , "The wall gave in" , "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"
27.
Estimate the duration or outcome of something.  "I gave him a very good chance at success"
28.
Execute and deliver.
29.
Deliver in exchange or recompense.
30.
Afford access to.  Synonyms: afford, open.  "The French doors give onto a terrace"
31.
Present to view.
32.
Perform for an audience.
33.
Be flexible under stress of physical force.  Synonym: yield.
34.
Propose.
35.
Accord by verdict.
36.
Manifest or show.  "The office gave evidence of tampering"
37.
Offer in good faith.
38.
Submit for consideration, judgment, or use.  "Give an excuse"
39.
Guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion.
40.
Allow to have or take.
41.
Inflict as a punishment.  "The judge gave me 10 years"
42.
Occur.
43.
Consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man.
44.
Proffer (a body part).
noun
1.
The elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length.  Synonyms: spring, springiness.



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"Give" Quotes from Famous Books



... to make solemn vows unto God. Representations are given of his people as formed for his service. According to some of these, the expression, to form, means to fashion, or to bring into existence. "I will say to the north, give up; and to the south, keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him." "This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth ...
— The Ordinance of Covenanting • John Cunningham
... "delighted to roam through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." But never does he seem to have imagined how natural it was for a mind of such a temperament to give an Eve to the Paradise of his Creation. Johnson, in truth, though, as he tells us, he gained the confidence of Collins, was not just the man into whose ear a lover would choose to pour his secrets. The fact was, Collins was greatly attached ...
— Books and Authors - Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches • Anonymous
... well that you yourself give proof of what you are. Where is the man who was letting his voice run on so grandly? No doubt you think his voice is ...
— Grettir The Strong - Grettir's Saga • Unknown
... met his eyes. "Oh to tell it would be to express it, and that's just what I can't do. What I meant to say just now," she added, "was that the French, to my sense, give us only again and again, for ever and ever, the same couple. There they are once more, as one has had them to satiety, in that yellow thing, and there I shall certainly again find them in ...
— Some Short Stories • Henry James
... cast—ah, the pride of it, the regal splendor of it! the thrill that ran down from finger-tip to toe! Then the water boiled. He broke for the fly and got it. There remained enough sense in me to give him all he wanted when he jumped not once, but twenty times, before the up-stream flight that ran my line out to the last half-dozen turns, and I saw the nickelled reel-bar glitter under the thinning green coils. My thumb was burned deep when I ...
— American Notes • Rudyard Kipling


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