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give way


verb
1. move in order to make room for someone for something (Freq. 7)
- The park gave way to a supermarket
- 'Move over,' he told the crowd
Syn:
move over, give, ease up, yield
Hypernyms:
move
Verb Group:
abandon, give up
Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- These cars won't give way
2. break down, literally or metaphorically (Freq. 1)
- The wall collapsed
- The business collapsed
- The dam broke
- The roof collapsed
- The wall gave in
- The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice
Syn:
collapse, fall in, cave in, give, break, founder
Derivationally related forms:
cave in (for: cave in), collapse (for: collapse)
Hypernyms:
change
Hyponyms:
implode, go off, buckle, crumple, flop,
break, slump, slide down, sink
Verb Group:
abandon, give up, collapse, burst
Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
3. end resistance, as under pressure or force (Freq. 1)
- The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram
Syn:
yield
Hypernyms:
change
Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
4. stop operating or functioning
- The engine finally went
- The car died on the road
- The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
- The coffee maker broke
- The engine failed on the way to town
- her eyesight went after the accident
Syn:
fail, go bad, die, give out, conk out,
go, break, break down
Derivationally related forms:
breakdown (for: break down), breakable (for: break), failure (for: fail)
Hypernyms:
change
Hyponyms:
crash, go down, blow out, burn out, blow,
misfire, malfunction, misfunction
Verb Group:
die, decease, perish, go, exit,
pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm,
conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak,
snuff it, break
Verb Frames:
- Something ----s


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