GIVE OUT
Definition:
- [verb] give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.; "The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits"
Synonyms: emit, give off
- [verb] give out; "The teacher handed out the exams"
Synonyms: distribute, hand out
- [verb] prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought"
Synonyms: fail, run out
- [verb] 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"
Synonyms: fail, go bad, give way, die, conk out, go, break, break down
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Related Words:
- effuse
- reflect, shine
- spark, sparkle
- radiate
- scintillate
- fume, smoke
- reek
- shoot
- ray
- steam
- share, divvy up, portion out, apportion, deal
- crash, go down
- blow out, burn out, blow
- misfire
- malfunction, misfunction
