English verb: give way | |||
1. | give way (motion) move in order to make room for someone for something | ||
Samples | The park gave way to a supermarket. `Move over,' he told the crowd. | ||
Examples | These cars won't give way | ||
Synonyms | ease up, give, move over, yield | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s | ||
Broader (hypernym) | move | ||
Verb group | abandon, give up | ||
2. | give way (motion) break down, literally or metaphorically | ||
Samples | 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. | ||
Synonyms | break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s | ||
Broader (hypernym) | change | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | break, buckle, crumple, flop, go off, implode, sink, slide down, slump | ||
Verb group | abandon, burst, collapse, give up | ||
3. | give way (change) end resistance, as under pressure or force | ||
Samples | The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram. | ||
Synonyms | yield | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s PP | ||
Broader (hypernym) | change | ||
4. | give way (change) stop operating or functioning | ||
Samples | 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. | ||
Synonyms | break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, go, go bad | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
Broader (hypernym) | change | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | blow, blow out, burn out, crash, go down, malfunction, misfire, misfunction | ||
Verb group | break, 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 | ||