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Synonyms:
- capitulate, submit, grant, allow, award, deliver, afford, furnish, bestow, spare, emit, impart, leave, retort, cede, bate, sacrifice, retaliate, concede, yield, offer, favour, entrust, compensate, consign, communicate, cede, shower upon, lavish, confer, melt, confer, immolate, relax, accommodate, invest, return, thaw, indulge, subscribe, bend, reciprocate, present, accord, render, resign, give in), surrender, communicate, emanate, relent, furnish, settle upon, dispense, bequeath, dole out, bow (give way, dispose, deal out, supply, supply, grant, devise, indemnify, bandy, discount, bestow, impart, assign, hand, mete, endow, contribute, deliver
Examples:
- - To give is primarily to transfer to another's possession or ownership without compensation; in its secondary sense in popular use, it is to put into another's possession by any means and on any terms whatever; a buyer may say " Give me the goods, and I will give you the money;" we speak of giving answers, information, etc., and often of giving what is not agreeable to the recipient, as blows, medicine, reproof; but when there is nothing in the context to indicate the contrary, give is always understood in its primary sense; as, this book was given me. Give thus becomes, like get, a term of such general import as to be a synonym for a wide variety of words. To grant is to put into one's possession in some formal way, or by authoritative act; as, Congress grants lands to a railroad corporation. To speak of granting a favor carries a claim or concession of superiority on the part of the one by whom the grant may be made; to confer has a similar sense; as, to confer a degree or an honor; we grant a request or petition, but do not confer it. To impart is to give of that which one still, to a greater or less degree, retains; the teacher imparts instruction. To bestow is to give that of which the receiver stands in especial need; we bestow alms.
Antonyms:
- sanction, trifle, pocket, own, confiscate, reject, acquire, clear, authorize, accept, reserve, neglect, inflate, catch, lend, disallow, win, preserve, rise, restrain, putter, suppress, formalize, approve, mess around, sell, negative, take, secure, fool around, hoard, refuse, retract, take over, advance, decline, famish, homologate, ratify, starve, turn down, warrant, OK, loan, dawdle, receive, dillydally, gain, stifle, dally, approbate, keep up, maintain, lay up, potter, procure, garner, hold back, occupy, overlook, rebuff, detain, ignore, possess, restrict, fiddle, deny, take in, censor, withhold, resume, monkey, disapprove, earn, spurn, keep, withdraw, save, contract, veto, conserve, come down, swell, rebut, cache, confirm, accredit, appropriate, disregard, finalize, hold, play, retain, make, seize, idle, realize
