give way
159 synonyms found
- abandon hope
- accommodate
- adjust
- aye
- back down
- beat down
- become suicidal
- bend
- break off combat
- break open
- break up
- burst
- carry away
- catch a crab
- cave
- cave in
- cease resistance
- cheapen
- collapse
- come apart
- come off
- come undone
- come unstuck
- compose
- compound
- compromise
- conk out
- cop out
- crack
- crack up
- crumble
- cut
- cut a crab
- cut prices
- decline
- deflate
- depreciate
- despair
- despair of
- despond
- devaluate
- disintegrate
- dive
- droop
- drop
- duck responsibility
- evade responsibility
- fade
- fail
- faint
- fall
- fall in price
- fall off
- fall to pieces
- falter
- feather
- feather an oar
- fizzle out
- flag
- flop
- flop down
- flump
- flump down
- fly apart
- founder
- fracture
- get loose
- give and take
- give away
- give ground
- give in
- give out
- give up
- give up hope
- go down
- go downhill
- go fifty-fifty
- go soft
- go to pieces
- hit rock bottom
- hit the skids
- jew down
- languish
- lapse
- lose heart
- lose hope
- lower
- make a deal
- make an adjustment
- make concessions
- mark down
- meet halfway
- nose-dive
- pace
- paddle
- pare
- peel off
- peg out
- peter out
- pine
- play politics
- plop
- plop down
- plumb the depths
- plummet
- plump
- plunge
- ply the oar
- poop out
- pull
- punt
- quit the field
- reach a compromise
- reach the depths
- reduce
- relax
- relent
- row
- row away
- row dry
- rupture
- sag
- scull
- set
- settle
- settle down
- shave
- ship oars
- shoot
- sink
- sink down
- sink into despair
- sky an oar
- slash
- slouch
- slump
- slump down
- snap
- split the difference
- spring a leak
- spring apart
- strike a balance
- strike a bargain
- submerge
- submit
- subside
- surrender
- swag
- take the mean
- touch bottom
- trim
- unbend
- unravel
- weaken
- wear away
- wear thin
- wilt
- yield
- yield to despair
Definition
(v) :
of fighting men: = give ground. to retreat before an advancing force; to break rank. also transf. and fig. construed with to; obsolete. to make way; leave the way clear. In early use often to give the way. construed with to