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Definition of Give way
1. Verb. Move in order to make room for someone for something. "These cars won't give way "; "`Move over,' he told the crowd"
Related verbs: Abandon, Give Up
Generic synonyms: Move
2. Verb. Break down, literally or metaphorically. "The business is going to give way "; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"
Generic synonyms: Change
Specialized synonyms: Go Off, Implode, Buckle, Crumple, Flop, Break, Sink, Slide Down, Slump
Related verbs: Abandon, Give Up, Burst, Collapse
Derivative terms: Cave In, Collapse, Collapse
3. Verb. End resistance, as under pressure or force. "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram"
4. Verb. Stop operating or functioning. "These cars won't give way "; "Her eyesight went after the accident"
Generic synonyms: Change
Related verbs: Break, Buy The Farm, Cash In One's Chips, Choke, Conk, Croak, Decease, Die, Drop Dead, Exit, Expire, Give-up The Ghost, Go, Kick The Bucket, Pass, Pass Away, Perish, Pop Off, Snuff It
Specialized synonyms: Crash, Go Down, Blow, Blow Out, Burn Out, Misfire, Malfunction, Misfunction
Derivative terms: Breakable, Breakdown, Failure
Definition of Give way
1. Verb. To yield to persistent persuasion. ¹
2. Verb. To collapse or break under physical stresses. ¹
3. Verb. To be followed, succeeded, or replaced by. ¹
4. Verb. To give precedence to other road users. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Give Way
Literary usage of Give way
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"Fur it is these who would most give way to recklessness, and bring both themselves
and us into danger that was evident beforehand. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Should the crater walls be too weak to resist the pressure of the molten mass,
they will give way, and the lava will rush out from the breach. ..."
3. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1895)
"The question was then give way. put to the judges, one by one, ' whether if, at
any time, in a case depending before the judges, His Majesty conceived it to ..."
4. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"give way now is to conquer by and by. A fountain gets muddy with but little
stirring up, and does not get clear by our meddling with it but by our leaving ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"It is quite time," continued Lady Laura, " that old Mr. Standish should give way.
.... give way ..."
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