give

Meaning

1. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
2. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
3. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
4. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
5. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
6. (slang) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
7. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
8. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
9. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
10. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
11. To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
12. To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
13. To yield or collapse under pressure or force.
14. To lead (onto or into).
15. To provide a view of.
16. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
17. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
18. To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.
19. To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.
20. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
21. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
22. To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow.
23. To devote or apply (oneself).
24. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
25. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
26. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.

grant

present

yield

give to

make a present

provide with

yield to

hand over to

hand to

disclose

give alms

let the cat out of the bag

make a motion

make an offer of

pass along

put on clothes

sign away

stick on

look out on

relegate to

toss in

trigger off

accommodate with

be dented

equip with

extend credit

foreswear

get a

give a present

indue

lead up

let know

lose it

move back

pass judgment

pass to

pitch in

put forth

put upon

serve food

show signs of

supply with

transfer to

be indented

let one have

do for one

develop symptoms of

blow against

undrape

crack

give a gift

do the favor of

be pleased to give

produce result

clothe with

feed with

load with

open on

stretch forth

honour with gifts

cause to

make a donation of

give voice

adeem

afford an entrance

lead on to

lose oneself in

make a gift

place in someone’s care

array in

make over to

one's

admit extradite

support foster

bring back to

act as

address

be given

denounce

endue

give rise

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɪv/

From Middle English given, from Old Norse gefa (“to give”), from Proto-Germanic *gebaną (“to give”). Merged with native Middle English yiven, ȝeven, from Old English ġiefan, from the same Proto-Germanic source (compare the obsolete inherited English doublet yive).

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