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GIVE OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stop operating or functioning
Example:
her eyesight went after the accident
Synonyms:
break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "give out" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Verb group:
break (render inoperable or ineffective)
buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "give out"):
crash; go down (stop operating)
blow; blow out; burn out (melt, break, or become otherwise unusable)
misfire (fail to fire or detonate)
malfunction; misfunction (fail to function or function improperly)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence example:
These cars won't give out
Sense 2
Meaning:
Prove insufficient
Example:
The water supply for the town failed after a long drought
Synonyms:
fail; give out; run out
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Give to several people
Example:
The teacher handed out the exams
Synonyms:
distribute; give out; hand out; pass out
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "give out" is one way to...):
gift; give; present (give as a present; make a gift of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "give out"):
apportion; deal; divvy up; portion out; share (give out as one's portion or share)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sense 4
Meaning:
Give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.
Example:
The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "give out"):
effuse (give out or emit (also metaphorically))
reflect; shine (be bright by reflecting or casting light)
spark; sparkle (emit or produce sparks)
radiate (send out rays or waves)
scintillate (give off)
fume; smoke (emit a cloud of fine particles)
reek (give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc.)
shoot (emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully)
ray (emit as rays)
steam (emit steam)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
