give out
— phrasal verb with give uk/ɡɪv/us/ɡɪv/verb gave, given
If a machine or part of your body gives out, it stops working:
At the end of the race his legs gave out and he collapsed on the ground.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Machines - not functioning
- act
- burn
- cut
- deactivate
- dead
- defunct
- disable
- fritz
- give up the ghost idiom
- haywire
- on the blink idiom
- out of commission idiom
- seize
- shudder
- shut
- shut (sth) off
- stop
- unusable
- whack
- wrong
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