单词 | give away |
释义 | give away transitive verb 1. < a beautiful streamlined television set … is being practically given away — Stuart Chase > 2. obsolete < be merry, Cassio, for thy solicitor shall rather die than give thy cause away — Shakespeare > 3. 4. a. < it would be useless to call him a cad for giving a woman away — O.S.J.Gogarty > < no prisoner would give a fellow prisoner away — Rex Ingamells > b. < the incident … also gives away an essential point — Times Literary Supplement > < a chef does not give away all his culinary secrets — Darius Milhaud > 5. < the thirty-year-old welterweight gave away six and a quarter pounds to his … middleweight arch foe — Jesse Abramson > intransitive verb < accidents are caused by the safety belt not being fastened or by the seat itself giving away — H.G.Armstrong > |
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