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Definition of Give way

1. Verb. Move in order to make room for someone for something. "These cars won't give way "; "`Move over,' he told the crowd"

2. Verb. Break down, literally or metaphorically. "The business is going to give way "; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"

3. Verb. End resistance, as under pressure or force. "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram"

4. Verb. Stop operating or functioning. "These cars won't give way "; "Her eyesight went after the accident"

Definition of Give way

1. Verb. To yield to persistent persuasion. ¹

2. Verb. To collapse or break under physical stresses. ¹

3. Verb. To be followed, succeeded, or replaced by. ¹

4. Verb. To give precedence to other road users. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Give Way

give the finger give the gate give the glad eye give the lie to give the once over give the sack give the store away give the time of day give thought give tongue to

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Literary usage of Give way

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1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"Fur it is these who would most give way to recklessness, and bring both themselves and us into danger that was evident beforehand. ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Should the crater walls be too weak to resist the pressure of the molten mass, they will give way, and the lava will rush out from the breach. ..."

3. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1895)
"The question was then give way. put to the judges, one by one, ' whether if, at any time, in a case depending before the judges, His Majesty conceived it to ..."

4. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"give way now is to conquer by and by. A fountain gets muddy with but little stirring up, and does not get clear by our meddling with it but by our leaving ..."

5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"It is quite time," continued Lady Laura, " that old Mr. Standish should give way. .... give way ..."

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