vverb.motionmove in order to make room for someone for somethingSynset:ease up give move over yield
Examples:- The park gave way to a supermarket
- 'Move over,' he told the crowd
Hypernyms:move
Inherited Hypernyms:move overmove
Sentence Frame:Something ---s | Somebody ---s | These cars won't --- (apply to: give way, yield, move over)
vverb.motionbreak down, literally or metaphoricallySynset:break cave in collapse fall in founder give
Examples:- 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
Derivationally Related Form:cave incollapse
Hypernyms:change
Inherited Hypernyms:collapsechange
Direct Hyponyms:breakbucklecrumpleflopgo offimplodesinkslide downslump
Full Troponyms:breakbuckleflopimplodeslump
Sentence Frame:Something ---s | Somebody ---s | The business is going to --- (apply to: collapse)
vverb.changeend resistance, as under pressure or forceSynset:yield
Examples:- The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram
Hypernyms:change
Inherited Hypernyms:give waychange
Sentence Frame:Something ---s | Somebody ---s | Somebody ---s PP
vverb.changestop operating or functioningSynset:break break down conk out die fail give out go go bad
Examples:- 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
Derivationally Related Form:breakablefailurebreakdown
Hypernyms:change
Inherited Hypernyms:failchange
Direct Hyponyms:blowblow outburn outcrashgo downmalfunctionmisfiremisfunction
Full Troponyms:blow outcrashjammalfunctionmisfire
Sentence Frame:Something ---s | These cars won't --- (apply to: conk out, go, break, give out, fail, break down, die)