Definition of give way Give way
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What does give way mean?
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| give way - end resistance, as under pressure or force; "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram" | ||
| yield | ||
| change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | ||
| give way - break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice" | ||
| collapse, fall in, cave in, give, break, founder | ||
| change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | ||
| implode, go off burst inward; "The bottle imploded" | ||
| abandon, give up stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations" | ||
| buckle, crumple fold or collapse; "His knees buckled" | ||
| flop fall suddenly and abruptly | ||
| break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" | ||
| slide down, slump, sink fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly; "The real estate market fell off" | ||
| collapse, burst lose significance, effectiveness, or value; "The school system is collapsing"; "The stock market collapsed" | ||
| give way - 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" | ||
| fail, go bad, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down | ||
| buy the farm, perish, kick the bucket, give-up the ghost, snuff it, drop dead, decease, cash in one's chips, pop off, pass away, expire, exit, croak, conk, die, choke, pass, go leave quickly | ||
| break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" | ||
| change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | ||
| go down, crash be defeated; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too" | ||
| burn out, blow out, blow melt, break, or become otherwise unusable; "The lightbulbs blew out"; "The fuse blew" | ||
| misfire fail to fire or detonate; "The guns misfired" | ||
| malfunction, misfunction fail to function or function improperly; "the coffee maker malfunctioned" | ||
| give way - move in order to make room for someone for something; "The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd" | ||
| move over, give, ease up, yield | ||
| move go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy" | ||
| abandon, give up stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations" | ||
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Wiktionary 
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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give way
To end resistance, as under pressure or force.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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give way
The order to a boat's crew to renew rowing, or to increase their exertions if they were already rowing. To hang on the oars.
