(b) To make public; to reveal.
I'll not state them
By giving up their characters.
Beau. & Fl. (c) (Used also reflexively.) To give up the ghost. See under Ghost. To give one's self up,
to abandon hope; to despair; to surrender one's self. To give way. (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. To give way together, to row in time; to keep stroke.
Syn. To Give, Confer, Grant. To give is the generic word, embracing all the rest. To confer was
originally used of persons in power, who gave permanent grants or privileges; as, to confer the order
of knighthood; and hence it still denotes the giving of something which might have been withheld; as,
to confer a favor. To grant is to give in answer to a petition or request, or to one who is in some way
dependent or inferior.
Give
(Give) v. i.
1. To give a gift or gifts.
2. To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.
3. To become soft or moist. [Obs.] Bacon .
4. To move; to recede.
Now back he gives, then rushes on amain.
Daniel. 5. To shed tears; to weep. [Obs.]
Whose eyes do never give
But through lust and laughter.
Shak. 6. To have a misgiving. [Obs.]
My mind gives ye're reserved
To rob poor market women.
J. Webster. 7. To open; to lead. [A Gallicism]
This, yielding, gave into a grassy walk.
Tennyson. To give back, to recede; to retire; to retreat.
They gave back and came no farther.
Bunyan.
To give in, 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.
To give off, to cease; to forbear. [Obs.] Locke. To give on or upon. (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.