Usually means: Transfer possession or ownership voluntarily.
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  1. give: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. give: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. give: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. give: Collins English Dictionary
  5. give: Vocabulary.com
  6. GIve, Give, give: Wordnik
  7. give: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. give: Wiktionary
  9. give: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. give: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. give: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. give: Dictionary.com
  13. give: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. give: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Give (Balkan Beat Box album), Give (Denmark), Give (The Bad Plus album), Give (UK Single EP), Give (disambiguation), Give (song), Give: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Give: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. give: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. give: Rhymezone
  19. give: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. give: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. give: Free Dictionary
  22. give: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. give: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. give: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. give: Legal dictionary
  4. give: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. give: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. GIVE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. give: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. give, give, give: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Give: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
verb:  To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
verb:  To make a present or gift of.
verb:  To pledge.
verb:  To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.
verb:  To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in (the specified person, or the target, audience, etc).
verb:  (slang, transitive) To give off (a certain vibe or appearance). (Compare giving.)
verb:  To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
verb:  To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.).
verb:  To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
verb:  To provide or administer (a medication)
verb:  (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
verb:  (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
verb:  (intransitive) To yield or collapse under pressure or force.
verb:  (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
verb:  (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
verb:  To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
verb:  To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
verb:  To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.
verb:  To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.
verb:  To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
verb:  To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
verb:  (dated or religion) To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow.
verb:  (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
verb:  (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
verb:  (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
verb:  (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
noun:  The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilience.
noun:  Alternative form of gyve [(literary) A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg.]

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