give way

give way
verb
1. move in order to make room for someone for something (Freq. 7)
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The park gave way to a supermarket

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`Move over,' he told the crowd

• Syn: ↑move over, ↑give, ↑ease up, ↑yield
• Hypernyms: ↑move
• Verb Group: ↑abandon, ↑give up
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Somebody ——s

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These cars won't give way

2. break down, literally or metaphorically (Freq. 1)
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The wall collapsed

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The business collapsed

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The dam broke

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The roof collapsed

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The wall gave in

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The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice

• Syn: ↑collapse, ↑fall in, ↑cave in, ↑give, ↑break, ↑founder
• Derivationally related forms: ↑cave in (for: ↑cave in), ↑collapse (for: ↑collapse)
• Hypernyms: ↑change
• Hyponyms:
↑implode, ↑go off, ↑buckle, ↑crumple, ↑flop, ↑break, ↑slump, ↑slide down, ↑sink
• Verb Group: ↑abandon, ↑give up, ↑collapse, ↑burst
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Somebody ——s

3. end resistance, as under pressure or force (Freq. 1)
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The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram

• Syn: ↑yield
• Hypernyms: ↑change
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s PP

4. stop operating or functioning
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The engine finally went

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The car died on the road

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The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town

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The coffee maker broke

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The engine failed on the way to town

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her eyesight went after the accident

• Syn:
↑fail, ↑go bad, ↑die, ↑give out, ↑conk out, ↑go, ↑break, ↑break down
• Derivationally related forms: ↑breakdown (for: ↑break down), ↑breakable (for: ↑break), ↑failure (for: ↑fail)
• Hypernyms: ↑change
• Hyponyms:
• Verb Group:
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • give way — v. (d; intr.) ( to yield ) to give way to (reason gave way to hysteria) * * * (d; intr.) ( to yield ) to give way to (reason gave way to hysteria) …   Combinatory dictionary

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