Give Way

Definition: Give Way

Give Way

Verb

1. Move in order to make room for someone for something; "The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd".

2. Break down, literally or metaphorically; "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".

3. End resistance, esp. under pressure or force; "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram.".

4. Stop operating or functioning; "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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Give Way

Brittleness

Break, crack, snap, split, shiver, splinter, crumble, break short, burst, fly, give way; fall to pieces; crumble to, crumble into dust.

Dejection

Verb: be dejected; Adjective: grieve; mourn; (lament); take on, give way, lose heart, despond, droop, sink.

Modesty

Verb: be modest; Adjective: retire, reserve oneself; give way to; draw in one's horns; hide one's face.

Pain

Grieve; mourn; (lament); yearn, repine, pine, droop, languish, sink; give way; despair; break one's heart; weigh upon the heart; (inflict pain).

Submission

Surrender, surrender at discretion; cede, capitulate, come to terms, retreat, beat a retreat; draw in one's horns; (humility); give way, give round, give in, give up; cave in; suffer judgment by default; bend, bend to one's yoke, bend before the storm; reel back; bend down, knuckle down, knuckle to, knuckle under; knock under.

Weakness

Verb: be weak; Adjective: drop, crumble, give way, totter, tremble, shake, halt, limp, fade, languish, decline, flag, fail, have one leg in the grave.

Crosswords: Give Way

Even the day must give way to the night (Swear It Again; performing artist: Westlife)

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Production. Submarine chasers. Pleasure craft give way to Navy construction. Scale model of the last sailboat built at an Eastern yard now making subchasers and other Navy boats is stored away as the company goes all out for war production. Marine Constru. Credit: Library of Congress.

Battles give way to sports in A.E.F. / Harry S. Mueller, Captain Infantry ; Fighting in France for Freedom! - Are you helping at home?. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Thus that learned king, who well understood the notion of things, makes the difference betwixt a king and a tyrant to consist only in this, that one makes the laws the bounds of his power, and the good of the public, the end of his government; the other makes all give way to his own will and appetite. (Second Treatise of Government)

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I do not advise you to give way to it, Harriet.

His strength, which was prodigious, and very little diminished by age, thanks to his chaste and sober life, began to give way notwithstanding.

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Health

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, increases the risk that a brittle artery wall will give way and release blood into the surrounding brain tissue. (references)

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Expressions using "give way": give way to ♦ To give way ♦ To give way together. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afstaan (cede, give, give in, give up, relinquish, yield). (various references)

Albanian

sprapsem (back, blench, give way to). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إستسلم (capitulate, cave, give in, give up, give way to, hands up, lay down, resign, submit, succumb, surrender, throw in one's hand), ‏أعطى حق الأولوية (give way to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отстъпвам (accede to, backpedal, backslide, backtrack, comply, concede, defer, deliver, draw back, fall back, give, give back, give ground, give in, give up, give way to, knuckle under, part with, release, retire, retreat, retrocede, say uncle, stand aside, stand back, step back, submit, succumb, vail), оттеглям се (adjourn, back, back away, disengage, draw back, draw off, draw out, fall back, fall off, give back, give way to, pull back, recede, repair, retire, retreat, retrocede, retrograde, run out, scuttle, seclude, step down, withdraw), предавам се (capitulate, descend, fall, give in, give oneself, give way to, lend, resign, say uncle, strike, surrender). (various references)

Czech

uvolnit cestu komu, ustoupit komu, podlehnout (be defeated, go down, go under, shrink, succumb), podlamovat se (buckle), dát přednost (elect, give the right of way, prefer). (various references)

Danish

give efter (cede, give in, give up, relinquish, yield). (various references)

Dutch

zwichten (cede, give in, give up, hesitate, relinquish, waver, yield), wýken (cease, cede, disappear, give in, give up, relinquish, stop, yield), toegeven (accede, acknowledge, acknowledgement, add, admission, admit, agree, cede, concede, confess, consent, give in, give up, grant, profess, relinquish, yield), het veld ruimen (cede, give in, give up, relinquish, yield), afstaan (abandonment, cede, give in, give up, relinquish, yield). (various references)

Esperanto

cedi (cede, give in, give up, relinquish, yield). (various references)

Faeroese

lata sær lynda (abandon, cede, give in, give up, relinquish, renounce, resign, yield), eftirlíka (cede, give in, give up, relinquish, yield). (various references)

Finnish

väistyä (cede, give in, give up, recede, relinquish, step aside, withdraw, yield). (various references)

French

céder (give in, give up), abandonner (give in, give up). (various references)

Frisian

ôfstean (cede, give in, give up, relinquish, yield). (various references)

German

nachgeben (back down, budge, cave in, cede, climb down, drop, ease, fall, give in, give up, indulge, pander, relent, relinquish, submit, to give in, to give way, weaken, yield), weichen (abate, budge, cede, ease, give in, give up, move, relinquish, retreat, soak, to give way, to go away, waver, yield). (various references)

Greek 

συμβιβάζω (accommodate, compound, compromise, conciliate, reconcile), δίνω προτεραιότητα (give way to). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתת זכות ק�"ימ�" (give the right of way, give way to, yield), ל�"כ� ע (buckle under, capitulate, give in, give up, give way to, knuckle under, resign, submit, succumb, surrender, throw in ones hand, yield). (various references)

Hungarian

enged (allow, cede, gave, give in, give up, given, had, let, relent, relinquish, to allow of, to comply with, to give, to give it best, to give the green light, to give way to, to have, to knuckle down, to lower one's flag, to relent, to slacken, to strike one's flag, to submit, to uncoop, yield). (various references)

Indonesian

menyisih (be separate, get out of the way), jeblos, bobol, ambleg (collapse). (various references)

Italian

cedere (abandon, assign, cede, crack, devote, give, give in, give up, hand over, knuckle, relent, relinquish, render, sag, sell, submit, succumb, surrender, yield). (various references)

Manx

raadey (anchorage, anchored, ride). (various references)

Pig Latin

ivegay ayway

Portuguese

ceder (break, bring to one's knees, cede, convey, demise, desist, dispose of, fold, give in, give up, go, hand over, humor, humour, indulge, knuckle under, part with, prelude, pull off, relinquish, resign, sag, sell, sink, spare, submit, succumb, to yield, transfer, truckle, vail, vend, weaken, yield). (various references)

Romanian

se retrage (adjourn, climb, crane, cry off, draw back, draw off, efface, fall back, make one's bow, move back, repair in, repair to, retire, retract, retreat, shrink, shrink from, stand back, step aside, withdraw), se lãsa pradã (abandon oneself to), fugi (career, chase, collide, course, dash, disappear, elope, escape, flee, fly, fly off, make off, make one's escape, pack off, run, scamper, scatter, scuttle away, take oneself to flight), face concesii, ceda (assign, bend, cave in, cede, come to terms, comply, concede, convey, defer, deliver over, deliver up, demise, give, go, knock under, knuckle under, lower one's colour, release, renounce, resign, slack, spare, submit, surrender, yield). (various references)

Russian 

уступать (acquiesce, assent, be inferior to, cede, comply, concede, fall back, give ground, give in, give way to, knuckle under, pass up, rebate, relinquish, remise, stand down, succumb, surrender, yield, yield to), уступить дорогу (give way to). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ustupiti mesto (give way to, make way), smenjivati se (give way to, rotate, take turns), pući (break, burst, bust up, click, crack, fire, give way to, pop, pop off, rupture, snap), prekinuti se (give way to), popustiti (cede, defer, ease up, give in, give way to, let up, relax, relent, remit, slack, slacken, unbrace). (various references)

Spanish

ceder (acquiesce, assign, budge, cede, concede, dispose of, give, give in, give up, go, grant, hand over, make over, part with, relent, relinquish, render up, sign away, sign over, transfer, turn over, waive, yield), abandonar (abandon, bolt, break, call off, cast away, cede, chuck, clear away, come off, come up, desert, ditch, drop, drop out, flee, forsake, give in, give up, iron out, jack in, lead off, leave, leave over, let into, quit, relinquish, resign, retire, take away, take from, take off, tear down, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, toss aside, walk out, walk out on, weaken, withdraw, yield). (various references)

Swedish

hemfalla (devolve, revert), cedere (cede, give in, give up, relinquish, yield), brista (be lacking, break, burst, bust, crack, fail, fall short, rupture, snap). (various references)

Turkish

yol vermek (give smb. the wall, give the right of way, sending away, yield, yield the right-of-way), teslím etmek (cede, give in, give up, relinquish, yield), kendini vermek (abandon oneself, apply oneself, be caught up in, give oneself over, pore over, resign, settle down to, steep oneself in), kapılmak (abandon oneself, be drawn to smb., be overcome by, be overcome with, be possessed by, be possessed with, be seized with, be taken with, fall in, give free rein to, give rein to, harden, sink into, slide into, surrender), küreklere asılmak, dayanamamak (succumb), boyun eğmek (bend, bend the knee, bow, bow down, buckle, buckle under, cave, comply, comply with, indulge, knuckle down, knuckle under, resign oneself to, sit down under, submit, surrender, truckle), öncelik tanımak (give priority to, prefer, yield precedence to), çökmek (abandon, bend, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, cower, crack, crack up, crouch, crumple, crumple up, decline, descend, dip, fall down, fall in, fold, fold up, founder, give up, gravitate, renounce, resign, sag, settle, sink, slump, slump down, squat, subside). (various references)

Welsh

ymollwng (collapse, drop, sink). (various references)

concedere, labaris, labatur, labor, nutabuntur, nutantes, nutaret. (various references)

abugan, onirnan. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: viewy, waive, wavey.

-3 letters: gave, give, gyve, vagi, view, viga, wage, wave, wavy, wive, yagi.

-4 letters: age, ave, awe, aye, gae, gay, gey, gie, ivy, vaw, veg, via, vie, vig, wae, wag, way, wig, wye, yaw, yea, yew.

-5 letters: ae, ag, ai, aw, ay, we, ya, ye.

+1 letter: giveaway.

+2 letters: giveaways.

+3 letters: waveringly.

+4 letters: heavyweight.

+5 letters: heavyweights, unwaveringly.