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give away

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. give awayverb

    make a gift of

    "She gave away her antique furniture"

  2. unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let outverb

    make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

    "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case"

  3. give awayverb

    formally hand over to the bridegroom in marriage; of a bride by her father

  4. denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stagverb

    give away information about somebody

    "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"

Wiktionary

  1. give awayverb

    To make a gift of (something).

  2. give awayverb

    To relinquish control over.

  3. give awayverb

    To formally hand over a bride to the bridegroom; often by her father.

  4. give awayverb

    To unintentionally reveal a secret, or expose someone.

  5. give awayverb

    To concede an advantage in weight, time, height etc.

  6. give awayverb

    to concede

ChatGPT

  1. give away

    To give away generally means to freely transfer the possession of something to someone else, often as a gift or donation, without expecting anything in return. It can also refer to revealing a secret or information unintentionally.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of give away in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of give away in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of give away in a Sentence

  1. Leonard Bernstein:

    The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

  2. Joseph Biggs:

    If I tell you right now, it will give away my play.

  3. Gregg Gonsalves:

    We could give away lots of what we have and still be fine.

  4. Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto:

    I would love to be able to help every employee in the city of Pittsburgh, but the reality of it is, I'm not a corporate CEO with a billion dollars to be able to give away.

  5. Lisa Jackson:

    There are some innovations of ours that we actually want people to copy. So as much as possible - as long as it doesn't give away some of our other design and engineering innovation - we are happy to bring along the recycling industry, we have started to be much more transparent around this technology development than we usually are.


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