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Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary
give way
1. move in order to make room for someone for something (Freq. 7) - The park gave way to a supermarket - 'Move over,' he told the crowd • Syn: move over, give, ease up, yield • Hypernyms: move • Verb Group: abandon, give up • Verb Frames: - Something ----s - Somebody ----s - These cars won't give way 2. break down, literally or metaphorically (Freq. 1) - The wall collapsed - The business collapsed - The dam broke - The roof collapsed - The wall gave in - The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice • Syn: collapse, fall in, cave in, give, break, founder • Derivationally related forms: cave in (for: cave in), collapse (for: collapse) • Hypernyms: change • Hyponyms: implode, go off, buckle, crumple, flop, break, slump, slide down, sink • Verb Group: abandon, give up, collapse, burst • Verb Frames: - Something ----s - Somebody ----s 3. end resistance, as under pressure or force (Freq. 1) - The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram • Syn: yield • Hypernyms: change • Verb Frames: - Something ----s - Somebody ----s - Somebody ----s PP 4. 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 • Syn: fail, go bad, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down • Derivationally related forms: breakdown (for: break down), breakable (for: break), failure (for: fail) • Hypernyms: change • Hyponyms: crash, go down, blow out, burn out, blow, misfire, malfunction, misfunction • Verb Group: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it, break • Verb Frames: - Something ----s
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