单词 | give way |
释义 | give way (once / 259 pages) 1v 2v WORD FAMILY give way: gave way, given way, gives way, giving way USAGE EXAMPLESSoon the weekend crowds gave way to solitude. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) “In Belgium, beer doesn’t have to give way to wine or other drinks in terms of quality and diversity.” Time(Nov 30, 2016) The unrest gave way to several more days of largely peaceful demonstrations, and the city instituted a curfew for multiple nights. Time(Nov 30, 2016) 1 v move in order to make room for someone for something 2Syn|Hyper ease up, give, move over, yield abandon, give up stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion 1v break down, literally or metaphorically Syn|Hypo|Hyper break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give abandon, give up stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims burst, collapsecause to burst go off, implode burst inward buckle, crumplefold or collapse flopfall loosely breakcurl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves sink, slide down, slumpfall or sink heavily change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 2v stop operating or functioning Syn|Hypo|Hyper break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, go, go bad break render inoperable or ineffective 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 itpass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life crash, go down stop operating blow, blow out, burn outmelt, break, or become otherwise unusable misfirefail to fire or detonate malfunction, misfunctionfail to function or function improperly jamget stuck and immobilized change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 3v end resistance, as under pressure or force Syn|Hyper yield change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature |
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