give

v

1. bestow, present, donate, contribute; turn over, hand over; confer, award; accord, grant, vouchsafe; leave, entrust.

2. allot, apportion, assign, allocate; mete out, distribute, dispense, dole, Inf. fork out, hand out, supply; Inf. shell out, Inf. dish out, pay.

3. offer, set forth; show, display; evidence, manifest, indicate, demonstrate.

4. consign, yield, relinquish; concede, surrender, give up, let go.

5. furnish, proffer, provide, lend, offer.

6. produce, result in, put out, afford; cause, occasion, make.

7. impart, communicate, transmit; send, purvey, convey, transfer, render.

8. deal, deliver; administer, execute; pay.

9. collapse, break down, buckle; fall apart, come apart; fail, expire.

10. give away

a. reveal, let slip, disclose, divulge, expose, let the cat out of the bag.b. betray, blow the whistle on, Sl. rat on, Sl. fink on.

11. give off

emit, send out, exude, throw out, pour out.

12. give up

a. despair, despond, lose or abandon hope, lose heart, falter.b. stop, desist from, quit, Inf. call it quits, swear off, cut out; renounce, forswear, forgo, reject, Inf. chuck; forsake, leave, desert, abandon.c. concede, acquiesce, submit, give in; succumb; draw in one's horns, put one's tail between one's legs, retreat, retire; surrender, turn up one's toes, capitulate, cry or say uncle, throw in the towel or sponge.