VERB
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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 -
prove insufficient
The water supply for the town failed after a long drought -
give to several people
The teacher handed out the exams -
stop operating or functioning
The engine finally went
The coffee maker broke
The engine failed on the way to town
The car died on the road
her eyesight went after the accident
The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
How To Use give out In A Sentence
- If you don't attend many conferences you won't have noticed that it seems to be fashionable to give out rucksacks, backpacks and haversacks as freebies to delegates.
- The mushrooms should give out enough moisture to cook themselves gently. Times, Sunday Times
- First apply FFT on the digital jamming signal and analyze the FFT data in frequency domain. It can give out an estimate of the center frequency and the detection's time.
- That was more like one of those promotional keychain penknives they give out at NPR seminars. You say Iraq, I say Iran; let's call the whole thing off
- The hotdoggers traditionally give out whistles shaped like the Wienermobile; the first was distributed in 1951.
- Our food supply at last give out.
- We give out something like a hundred bazillion * dollars every year (* figure adjusted for inflation).
- It was assumed that metals give out phlogiston during calcination.
- If you don't attend many conferences you won't have noticed that it seems to be fashionable to give out rucksacks, backpacks and haversacks as freebies to delegates.
- They won't give out press conferences to give the media an opportunity to cross-examine their officials.
