give out

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verb

1. give off, send forth, or discharge;
as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc. (Freq. 1)
- The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits
• Syn:
emit, give off
• Ant:
absorb (for: emit)
• Derivationally related forms:
emission (for: emit), emitter (for: emit)
• Hyponyms:
effuse, reflect, shine, spark, sparkle,
radiate, scintillate, fume, smoke, reek, shoot,
ray, steam
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. give to several people (Freq. 1)
- The teacher handed out the exams
• Syn:
distribute, hand out, pass out
• Derivationally related forms:
distributive (for: distribute)
• Hypernyms:
give, gift, present
• Hyponyms:
share, divvy up, portion out, apportion, deal
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody something
- Somebody ----s something to somebody
3. 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
• Syn:
fail, go bad, give way, die, conk out,
go, break, break down
• Derivationally related forms:
breakdown (for: break down), breakable (for: break), failure (for: fail)
• Hypernyms:
change
• Hyponyms:
crash, go down, blow out, burn out, blow,
misfire, malfunction, misfunction
• Verb Group:
die, decease, perish, go, exit,
pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm,
conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak,
snuff it, break
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- These cars won't give out
4. prove insufficient
- The water supply for the town failed after a long drought
• Syn:
fail, run out
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s