give
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(verb) proffer, as of a body part; "She gave her hand to her little sister" |
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Related Words: offer, proffer |
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(verb) consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man; "She gave herself to many men" |
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Related Words: accept, consent, go for |
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(verb) occur; "what gives?" (slang) |
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Related Words: come about, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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(verb) estimate the duration or outcome of something; "He gave the patient three months to live"; "I gave him a very good chance at success" |
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Related Words: approximate, estimate, gauge, guess, judge |
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(verb) as in the expressions "give thought to"; "give priority to", etc. |
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Synonyms: devote, pay |
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Related Words: cerebrate, cogitate, think |
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(verb) inflict as a punishment; "She gave the boy a good spanking"; "The judge gave me 10 years" |
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Related Words: bring down, impose, inflict, visit |
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(verb) allow to have or take; "I give you two minutes to respond" |
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Related Words: allow, countenance, let, permit |
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(verb) guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion: "You gave me to think that you agreed with me" |
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Related Words: lead |
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(verb) submit for consideration, judgment, or use; "give one's opinion"; 'give an excuse" |
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Related Words: submit |
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(verb) furnish or contribute; "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause" |
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Synonyms: commit, dedicate, devote |
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Related Words: apply, apply, consecrate, employ, rededicate, use, utilise, utilize, vow |
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(verb) offer in good faith; "He gave her his word" |
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Related Words: pledge |
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(verb) manifest or show; "This student gives promise of real creativity"; "The office gave evidence of tampering" |
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Related Words: evince, express, show |
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(verb) convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture; "Throw a glance"; "She gave me a dirty look" |
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Synonyms: throw |
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Related Words: communicate, intercommunicate |
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(verb) convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow; "Don't pay him any mind"; "give the orders"; "Give him my best regards"; "pay attention" |
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Synonyms: pay |
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Related Words: communicate, extend, intercommunicate, offer |
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(verb) bestow; "give hommage" |
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Synonyms: render |
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Related Words: communicate, dedicate, intercommunicate |
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(verb) legal use: accord by verdict; "give a decision for the plaintiff" |
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Related Words: accord, allot, grant |
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(verb) propose as a toast |
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Related Words: drink, pledge, salute, toast |
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(verb) be flexible under stress of physical force; "This material doesn't give" |
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Synonyms: yield |
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Related Words: stretch |
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(verb) bring about; "His two singles gave the team the victory" |
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Synonyms: bring about, yield |
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Related Words: create, make |
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(verb) perform for an audience; "Pollini is giving another concert in New York" |
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Related Words: perform |
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(verb) present to view; "He gave the sign to start" |
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Related Words: show |
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(verb) transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody; "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?" "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care" |
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Related Words: accord, administer, allot, allow, bank, bestow, cater, cede, chip in, concede, contribute, cough up, deal, deal out, deposit, dish out, dispense, dispense with, distribute, dole out, furnish, give, give up, grant, heap, kick in, lease, lend, let, loan, lot, mete out, offer, parcel out, part with, pay, ply, pony up, present, proffer, provide, render, rent, repay, requite, return, see through, shell out, spare, spit up, submit, supply, support, transfer, yield |
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Antonyms: take |
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(verb) leave with; give temporarily: "Can I give you my keys while I go in the pool?" "Can I give you the children for the weekend?" |
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Related Words: give, hand, pass, pass on, reach, turn over |
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(verb) give as a present; make a gift of; "What will you give her for her birthday?" |
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Synonyms: gift, present |
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Related Words: bequeath, bung, cede, deed over, deliver, distribute, donate, dower, endow, give away, give out, give up, grant, hand out, leave, raffle, raffle off, render, submit, surrender, tender, tip, treat, will |
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(verb) convey or reveal information; "Give one's name" |
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Related Words: cast, list, name, quote, say, state, tell |
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(verb) give or convey physically: "She gave him First Aid"; "I gave him a punch in the nose" |
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Synonyms: apply |
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Related Words: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out, tread |
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(verb) give, as of medicine; "I gave him the drug" |
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Related Words: administer, administer, dispense |
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(verb) cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense: "She gave him a black eye"; "The draft gave me a cold" |
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Related Words: deliver, infect |
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(verb) deliver in exchange or recompense: "I'll give you three books for four CDs" |
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Related Words: compensate, indemnify, recompense |
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(verb) emit or utter; "Give a gulp"; "give a yelp" |
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Related Words: emit, let loose, let out, utter |
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(verb) execute and deliver; "Give bond" |
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Related Words: execute |
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(noun) the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length |
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Synonyms: spring, springiness |
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Related Words: elasticity |
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(verb) bring about; "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth" |
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Synonyms: establish |
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Related Words: create, make |
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(verb) contribute to some cause; "I gave at the office" |
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Synonyms: chip in, contribute, kick in |
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Related Words: combine, give, pool |
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(verb) bestow, esp. officially; "grant a degree"; "give a divorce"; "This bill grants us new rights" |
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Synonyms: grant |
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(verb) be the cause or source of; "He gave me a lot of trouble"; "Our meeting afforded much interesting information" |
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Synonyms: afford, yield |
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Related Words: allow, allow for, furnish, leave, open, open up, provide, provide for, render, supply |
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(verb) endure the loss of; "He gave his life for his children"; "I gave two sons to the war" |
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Synonyms: sacrifice |
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Related Words: free, give up, release, relinquish |
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(verb) stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas, claims, etc.; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give in these negociations" |
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Synonyms: abandon, give up |
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(verb) give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat" |
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Synonyms: feed, grub |
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Related Words: aliment, bottlefeed, breakfast, breastfeed, cater, corn, crop, dine, fodder, force-feed, give suck, graze, inject, lactate, lunch, nourish, nurse, nutrify, overfeed, pasture, ply, provide, range, regurgitate, scavenge, slop, spoonfeed, suck, suckle, sup, supply, swill, wet-nurse |
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(verb) move in order to make room for someone for something; "The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd" |
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Synonyms: ease up, give way, move over, yield |
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Related Words: move |
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(verb) tell, give knowledge; "give a secret to the Russians" |
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Synonyms: impart, leave, pass on |
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Related Words: tell |
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(verb) afford access to; "the door opens to the patio"; "The French doors give onto a terrace" |
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Synonyms: afford, open |
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(verb) give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The cow won't give much milk" |
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Synonyms: generate, render, return, yield |
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Related Words: create, make, produce |
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(verb) break down, literally or metaphorically; "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" |
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Synonyms: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give way |
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Related Words: break, buckle, change, crumple, flop, go off, implode, sink, slide down, slump |
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(verb) organize or be responsible for; "hold a reception," "have, throw, or make a party", "give a course", etc. |
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Synonyms: have, hold, make, throw |
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Related Words: direct |
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(verb) place into the hands or custody of; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers" |
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Synonyms: hand, pass, pass on, reach, turn over |
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Related Words: commit, confide, deal, deliver, entrust, free, get in, give, give up, hand over, intrust, leave, release, relinquish, render, slip, sneak, transfer, trust, turn in |
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