VERB
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break down, literally or metaphorically
The wall collapsed
The business collapsed
The wall gave in
The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice
The dam broke
The roof collapsed -
end resistance, as under pressure or force
The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram -
move in order to make room for someone for something
`Move over,' he told the crowd
The park gave way to a supermarket -
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 way In A Sentence
- The petechiae may give way to ecchymoses (like a petechial rash, but covering larger areas) and other haemorrhagic phenomena such as melaena (bleeding from the upper bowel, passed as altered blood in the faeces), haematuria (blood in the urine), epistaxis Chapter 2
- Clean, paved roads give way to dirt paths strewn with rubbish and open sewers. The Sun
- Banana plantations and forests give way to volcanic cones and lava fields. Times, Sunday Times
- Cars waiting to turn right on to Carleton Road from Skipton hold all the outgoing traffic up as cars coming into Skipton won't give way on a green light.
- You wish to cause the people to rebel against the great Rabbi and the kahal, and you yourself give way before the enemy. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story
- Commodities –Gold rose slightly this morning, up $7 to $747, while crude continues to give way, slumping $1 to below $56/bbl –following Asian stock market slide this morning.
- Mundane words such as lesson plan, morning traffic, boyfriend, and tennis club would in an instant give way to medical terms such as skin graft, debride, burn unit, bum victim. Healed by Horses
- On either side of it, the city seemed to give way entirely for the airway; it hung, suspended, like a floating river cutting through a steep, shining landscape.
- The aged timber cracked and the roof began to give way, spraying us with a shower of dirt and small debris.
- Thickets of flamboya, casuarina and sweet coconut give way to the arid Palmyra palm.