(b) To make public; to reveal.
I'll not state them
By giving up their characters.
Beau. & Fl. (c) (Used also reflexively.) — To give up the ghost. See under Ghost. — To give one's self up,
to abandon hope; to despair; to surrender one's self. — To give way. (a) To withdraw; to give place.
(b) To yield to force or pressure; as, the scaffolding gave way. (c) (Naut.) To begin to row; or to row
with increased energy. (d) (Stock Exchange). To depreciate or decline in value; as, railroad securities
gave way two per cent. — To give way together, to row in time; to keep stroke.
Syn. — To Give, Confer, Grant. To give is the generic word, embracing all the rest. To confer was
originally used of persons in power, who gave permanent grants or privileges; as, to confer the order
of knighthood; and hence it still denotes the giving of something which might have been withheld; as,
to confer a favor. To grant is to give in answer to a petition or request, or to one who is in some way
dependent or inferior.
Give
(Give) v. i.
1. To give a gift or gifts.
2. To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.
3. To become soft or moist. [Obs.] Bacon .
4. To move; to recede.
Now back he gives, then rushes on amain.
Daniel. 5. To shed tears; to weep. [Obs.]
Whose eyes do never give
But through lust and laughter.
Shak. 6. To have a misgiving. [Obs.]
My mind gives ye're reserved
To rob poor market women.
J. Webster. 7. To open; to lead. [A Gallicism]
This, yielding, gave into a grassy walk.
Tennyson. To give back, to recede; to retire; to retreat.
They gave back and came no farther.
Bunyan. —
To give in, to yield; to succumb; to acknowledge one's self beaten; to cease opposition.
The Scots battalion was enforced to give in.
Hayward.
This consideration may induce a translator to give in to those general phrases.
Pope. —
To give off, to cease; to forbear. [Obs.] Locke. — To give on or upon. (a) To rush; to fall upon.
[Obs.] (b) To have a view of; to be in sight of; to overlook; to look toward; to open upon; to front; to face.
[A Gallicism: cf. Fr. donner sur.]
Rooms which gave upon a pillared porch.
Tennyson.
The gloomy staircase on which the grating gave.
Dickens.
