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 giveon 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.

(b) To make public; to reveal.

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

(c) (Used also reflexively.) —


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