give forth


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Verb1.give forth - give out (breath or an odor); "The chimney exhales a thick smoke"
emanate, exhale
emit, pass off, breathe - expel (gases or odors)
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give

verb
1. To make a gift of.Also used with away:
bestow, hand out, present.
2. To present as a gift to a charity or cause:
bestow, contribute, donate, hand out.
3. To relinquish to the possession or control of another:
deliver, furnish, hand, hand over, provide, supply, transfer, turn over.
4. To distribute (money) as payment:
disburse, expend, lay out, outlay, pay (out), spend.
Informal: fork out (or over) (or up), shell out.
5. To provide as a remedy:
administer, apply, dispense.
6. To mete out by means of some action:
administer, deal, deliver.
7. To let have as a favor, prerogative, or privilege:
accord, award, concede, grant, vouchsafe.
8. To put in the charge of another for care, use, or performance.Also used with over:
commend, commit, confide, consign, entrust, hand over, relegate, trust, turn over.
Idiom: give in trust.
9. To devote (oneself or one's efforts):
address, apply, bend, buckle down, concentrate, dedicate, devote, direct, focus, turn.
10. To set aside or distribute as a share:
admeasure, allocate, allot, allow, apportion, assign, lot, measure out, mete (out).
11. To produce on the stage:
act (out), do, dramatize, enact, perform, present, put on, stage.
12. To organize and carry out (an activity):
have, hold, stage.
13. To cause (a disease) to pass to another or others:
carry, communicate, convey, pass, spread, transmit.
14. To bring forth (a product):
bear, produce, yield.
15. To discharge material, as vapor or fumes, usually suddenly and violently:
emit, give forth, give off, give out, issue, let off, let out, release, send forth, throw off, vent.
16. To be unable to hold up:
bend.
17. To fall in:
buckle, cave in, collapse, crumple, go.
Idiom: give way.
phrasal verb
give away
To disclose in a breach of confidence:
betray, blab, divulge, expose, let out, reveal, tell, uncover, unveil.
Informal: spill.
Archaic: discover.
Idioms: let slip, let the cat out of the bag, spill the beans, tell all.
phrasal verb
give back
1. To put (someone) in the possession of a prior position or office:
reinstate, replace, restore, return.
2. To send, put, or carry back to a former location:
restore, return, take back.
phrasal verb
give forth
To discharge material, as vapor or fumes, usually suddenly and violently:
emit, give, give off, give out, issue, let off, let out, release, send forth, throw off, vent.
phrasal verb
give in
To cease opposition:
concede, yield.
phrasal verb
give off
To discharge material, as vapor or fumes, usually suddenly and violently:
emit, give, give forth, give out, issue, let off, let out, release, send forth, throw off, vent.
phrasal verb
give out
1. To discharge material, as vapor or fumes, usually suddenly and violently:
emit, give, give forth, give off, issue, let off, let out, release, send forth, throw off, vent.
2. To cease functioning properly:
break down, fail.
Slang: conk out.
3. To suddenly lose all health or strength:
break (down), cave in, collapse, crack, drop, succumb.
Informal: crack up.
Slang: conk out.
Idiom: give way.
4. To lose so much strength and power as to become ineffective or motionless:
burn out, run down.
Slang: poop out.
5. To make or become no longer active or productive:
deplete, desiccate, dry up, play out, run out.
6. To prove deficient or insufficient:
fail, run out.
Idioms: fall short, run dry, run short.
phrasal verb
give over
1. To yield (oneself) unrestrainedly, as to a particular impulse:
abandon, give up, surrender.
2. To cease consideration or treatment of:
dismiss, drop, give up, skip.
Idioms: have done with, wash one's hands of.
phrasal verb
give up
1. To yield (oneself) unrestrainedly, as to a particular impulse:
abandon, give over, surrender.
2. To cease trying to accomplish or continue:
abandon, break off, desist, discontinue, leave off, quit, relinquish, remit, stop.
Informal: swear off.
Slang: lay off.
Idioms: call it a day, call it quits, hang up one's fiddle, have done with, throw in the towel.
3. To desist from, cease, or discontinue (a habit, for example):
break, cut out, leave off, stop.
Slang: kick.
4. To cease consideration or treatment of:
dismiss, drop, give over, skip.
Idioms: have done with, wash one's hands of.
5. To lose all hope:
despair, despond.
noun
The quality or state of being flexible:
bounce, ductility, elasticity, flexibility, flexibleness, malleability, malleableness, plasticity, pliability, pliableness, pliancy, pliantness, resilience, resiliency, spring, springiness, suppleness.
Obsolete: flexure.
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The field was full of prickly things and thrumming things and pass-your-hand-over-the-yellow reeds and of those low-lying little green weeds with the purplish owers that, if you pulled out the threads and sucked hard on the heads with your tongue and teeth working in tandem, would give forth a few drops of nectar.
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But one day robots they will kneel And give forth oily tears of steel, They'll point and infra-red the door And man will programme them no more.
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