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Word: give out (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


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Verb:

  • to issue; to distribute
  • ''intransitive'' of persons: to desist (in later use, to desist through exhaustion of strength or patience). of an implement, a limb, a machine, etc.: to break down, get out of order, fail. of a supply: to run short, come to an end
  • (Ireland, idiomatic). To complain, sulk, chastise.
  • to announce (a hymn) to be sung; to read out (the words) for the congregation to sing
  • to send forth, emit; to cause to be sent forth. also, to put forth, utter (prayers)
  • ''transitive''. to utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report. '''to give (it) out:''' to profess, give it to be believed that. also, '''to give (a person) out''' to be (so and so)

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