give

give has 65 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• n.. To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow.
• n.. To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy.
• n.. To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks.
• n.. To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc.
• n.. To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission.
• n.. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
• n.. To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study.
• n.. To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given.
• n.. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
• n.. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
• n.. To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain.
• n.. To pledge; as, to give one's word.