Definitions for give out

Definitions for (verb) give out

Main entry: break, break down, die, conk out, go, go bad, give out, give way, fail

Definition: stop operating or functioning

Usage: 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


Main entry: run out, fail, give out

Definition: prove insufficient

Usage: The water supply for the town failed after a long drought


Main entry: distribute, pass out, give out, hand out

Definition: give to several people

Usage: The teacher handed out the exams


Main entry: give off, give out, emit

Definition: give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.

Usage: The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits


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