giveverb
uk/ɡɪv/us/ɡɪv/gave, givengive verb (PROVIDE)
A1 [ I or T ] to offer something to someone, or to provide someone with something:
B1 [ T ] to pay someone a particular amount:
to give your money, time, or best efforts, especially in a way that seems generous:
to put a lot of effort into doing something:
A2 [ T ] to tell someone something:
[ T ] to punish someone by sending them to prison for a particular period:
B1 [ T ] to allow a person or activity a particular amount of time:
[ T ] informal to calculate that something will last a particular amount of time:
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- Can you give any evidence to support your claim?
- I'm never going to guess the answer if you don't give me a clue.
- The letters that people wrote after his death gave me a lot of comfort.
- A loving family environment gives children that sense of stability and permanence which they need.
- I'm a bit wary of/about giving people my address when I don't know them very well.
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Giving, providing and supplying
- accommodate
- accord
- administer
- administration
- assignment
- award
- dish
- go round (somewhere)
- hand sth around
- hand sth back
- hand sth in
- hand sth out
- invest
- lay
- spare
- stake sb to sth
- step
- step forward
- supplier
- supply
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give verb (CAUSE)
B1 [ T ] to produce or cause something:
to tell someone something or cause someone to think that something is true:
More examples
- The photocopier is giving me all sorts of problems.
- The noise and heat of the office was giving him a headache.
- The success of the team gave the manager great satisfaction.
- The teacher's comments gave her confidence.
- The red carpet gave the ceremony a real sense of occasion.
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Creating and producing
- bear fruit idiom
- bring
- bring sth out
- churn sth out
- cobble
- craft
- mass-produce
- on the go idiom
- overproduce
- patch sth together
- phase
- pump
- raise
- rush
- throw
- turn sth in
- turn sth out
- uncreative
- unleash
- unproductive
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give verb (DO)
A2 [ T ] to perform an action:
A2 [ T ] to organize a party, meal, etc.:
to attempt something:
[ T + two objects ] formal to say publicly that everyone present at a formal occasion, especially a meal, should drink a toast to someone (= have a drink in honour of someone):
More examples
- To celebrate his birthday, Tony gave a party.
- The producer gave a party to thank all the people who had helped in the making of the film.
- She gave a sigh of relief as the car came to a stop.
- Just give the ends a trim, please.
- If you don't give it a go, you'll never know what you could have achieved.
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Acting and acts
- (your) every move idiom
- -ation
- act/do sth on your own responsibility idiom
- action
- activity
- agency
- ant
- be up to sth idiom
- feel
- gambit
- get around to sth
- give yourself over/up to sth
- go about sth
- go about your business idiom
- go through with sth
- hand
- manoeuvring
- talk
- talk the talk idiom
- up to
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give verb (STRETCH)
[ I ] If something gives, it stretches, bends, or breaks, or becomes less firm or tight, under pressure:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Becoming bigger
- accrue
- augment
- billow
- bloat
- broaden
- bump
- engorged
- enlarge
- enlargement
- expansion
- extend
- extension
- oak
- puff up
- regenerate
- scalability
- scalable
- scaleable
- shoot
- stretch
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give verb (DECIDE)
[ T + obj + adj ] UK in some sports, to decide and state officially that a player or the ball is in a particular condition or place:
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Announcing, informing & stating
- acquaint sb/yourself with sth
- advise
- advisement
- annunciation
- come out
- commit
- confront
- declare
- fyi
- give sb a heads up idiom
- head
- let sb know idiom
- official
- pronouncement
- put
- put sth out 1
- spread the word idiom
- tell
- unannounced
- word
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Idiom(s)
Phrasal verb(s)
givenoun [ U ]
uk/ɡɪv/us/ɡɪv/the quality of stretching, bending, or breaking, or becoming less firm or tight, under pressure:
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Flexible, loose and yielding
- adrift
- bendable
- bendy
- ductile
- elastic
- floppy
- flowing
- jointed
- loose
- loose-fitting
- loosely
- looseness
- plastic
- slackness
- springy
- sprung
- stretch
- stretchy
- supple
- yield
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