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| NOUN: | The quality or state of being flexible: bounce, ductility, elasticity, flexibility, flexibleness, malleability, malleableness, plasticity, pliability, pliableness, pliancy, pliantness, resilience, resiliency, spring, springiness, suppleness. Obsolete : flexure. See FLEXIBLE. | | VERB: | 1. To provide as a remedy: administer, apply, dispense. See GIVE. 2. To set aside or distribute as a share: admeasure, allocate, allot, allow, apportion, assign, lot, measure out, mete (out). See COLLECT. 3. To devote (oneself or one's efforts): address, apply, bend, buckle down, concentrate, dedicate, devote, direct, focus, turn. See COLLECT, WORK. 4. To bring forth (a product): bear, produce, yield. See RICH. 5. To be unable to hold up: bend. See HELP. 6. To fall in: buckle, cave in, collapse, crumple, go. Idioms: give way. See EXPLOSION. 7. To cause (a disease) to pass to another or others: carry, communicate, convey, pass, spread, transmit. See MOVE. 8. To present as a gift to a charity or cause: bestow, contribute, donate, hand out. See GIVE. 9. To discharge material, as vapor or fumes, usually suddenly and violently: emit, give forth, give off, give out, issue, let off, let out, release, send forth, throw off, vent. See FREE, MOVE. 10. To put in the charge of another for care, use, or performance. Also used with over: commend, commit, confide, consign, entrust, hand over, relegate, trust, turn over. Idioms: give in trust (or charge) . See GIVE. 11. To make a gift of. Also used with away: bestow, hand out, present2. See GIVE. 12. To mete out by means of some action: administer, deal, deliver. See GIVE. 13. To relinquish to the possession or control of another: deliver, furnish, hand, hand over, provide, supply, transfer, turn over. See GIVE. 14. To let have as a favor, prerogative, or privilege: accord, award, concede, grant, vouchsafe. See GIVE. 15. To organize and carry out (an activity): have, hold, stage. See CONTROL, PLANNED. 16. To distribute (money) as payment: disburse, expend, lay out, outlay, pay (out), spend. Informal : fork out or (over) or (up), shell out. See SAVE. 17. To produce on the stage: act (out), do, dramatize, enact, perform, present2, put on, stage. See PERFORMING ARTS. | | PHRASAL VERB: | give away To disclose in a breach of confidence: betray, blab, divulge, expose, let out, reveal, tell, uncover, unveil. Informal : spill. Archaic : discover. Idioms: let slip, let the cat out of the bag, spill the beans, tell all. See SHOW. give back 1. To put (someone) in the possession of a prior position or office: reinstate, replace, restore, return. See INCREASE, KEEP. 2. To send, put, or carry back to a former location: restore, return, take back. See INCREASE, KEEP. give forth To discharge material, as vapor or fumes, usually suddenly and violently: emit, give, give off, give out, issue, let off, let out, release, send forth, throw off, vent. See FREE, MOVE. give in To cease opposition: concede, yield. See WIN. give off To discharge material, as vapor or fumes, usually suddenly and violently: emit, give, give forth, give out, issue, let off, let out, release, send forth, throw off, vent. See FREE, MOVE. give out 1. To suddenly lose all health or strength: break (down), cave in, collapse, crack, drop, succumb. Informal : crack up. Slang : conk out. Idioms: give way. See HEALTH. 2. To make or become no longer active or productive: deplete, desiccate, dry up, play out, run out. See CONTINUE. 3. To discharge material, as vapor or fumes, usually suddenly and violently: emit, give, give forth, give off, issue, let off, let out, release, send forth, throw off, vent. See FREE, MOVE. 4. To cease functioning properly: break down, fail. Slang : conk out. See THRIVE. 5. To prove deficient or insufficient: fail, run out. Idioms: fall short, run dry, run short. See EXCESS. 6. To lose so much strength and power as to become ineffective or motionless: burn out, run down. Slang : poop out. See TIRED. give over 1. To cease consideration or treatment of: dismiss, drop, give up, skip. Idioms: have done with, wash one's hands of. See KEEP. 2. To yield (oneself) unrestrainedly, as to a particular impulse: abandon, give up, surrender. See RESIST. give up 1. To cease trying to accomplish or continue: abandon, break off, desist, discontinue, leave off, quit, relinquish, remit, stop. Informal : swear off. Slang : lay off. Idioms: call it a day, call it quits, hang up one's fiddle, have done with, throw in the towel. See CONTINUE. 2. To desist from, cease, or discontinue (a habit, for example): break, cut out, leave off, stop. Slang : kick. See CONTINUE. 3. To lose all hope: despair, despond. See HOPE. 4. To cease consideration or treatment of: dismiss, drop, give over, skip. Idioms: have done with, wash one's hands of. See KEEP. 5. To yield (oneself) unrestrainedly, as to a particular impulse: abandon, give over, surrender. See RESIST.
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