give

Meaning

Verb

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

Noun

The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilience.

Noun

Alternative form of gyve.

Opposite of

get, obtain, receive, take, resist

Synonyms

grant

present

bestow

offer

hand over

donate

confer

yield

deliver

pay

💸

contribute

provide

render

hand

✋

assign

award

impart

dedicate

pass

distribute

devote

put

allow

supply

sacrifice

afford

accord

pass on

perform

gift

🎁

return

endow

apply

generate

consecrate

lend

reach

spend

make

hold

give way

administer

play

throw

furnish

show

convey

hand out

set

let

Translations

donner

dar

dare

geben

dar

geven

δίνω

offrir

donar

vermek

schenken

dare

regalare

entregar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɪv/

Etymology

Middle English given, from Old Norse gefa (“to give”), from Proto-Germanic *gebaną (“to give”). Displaced yive, from Middle English yiven, of the same origin.

Sentences

Give it a name .

" Give me my book ," the boy said .

Want to give my flower a drink .

Give them a little third degree .

I would give a good review of the new TV I bought a week ago .

I gave it to Jeeves to give it to you .