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单词 give away
释义 give away
verb
Etymology: Middle English given away, from given to give + away
transitive verb
1. : to make a present of : donate
 < a beautiful streamlined television set … is being practically given away — Stuart Chase >
2. obsolete : to make a sacrifice of
 < be merry, Cassio, for thy solicitor shall rather die than give thy cause away — Shakespeare >
3. : to perform the ceremony of delivering (a bride) to the bridegroom at a wedding
4.
 a. : to expose to detection or ridicule : betray
  < 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. : to allow (as a secret) to be known : disclose, reveal
  < the incident … also gives away an essential point — Times Literary Supplement >
  < a chef does not give away all his culinary secrets — Darius Milhaud >
5. : to give an advantage by competing under a handicap of
 < the thirty-year-old welterweight gave away six and a quarter pounds to his … middleweight arch foe — Jesse Abramson >
intransitive verb
: to yield to or as if to physical force or strain
 < accidents are caused by the safety belt not being fastened or by the seat itself giving away — H.G.Armstrong >
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