English Dictionary

give away

verb

(transitive) To make a gift of (something). / (transitive) To relinquish control over. / (transitive) To formally hand over a bride to the bridegroom; often by her father.

She decided to give away all her old clothes to charity.

意味（1）

(transitive) To make a gift of (something).

I didn't like that book, so I gave it away.

意味（2）

(transitive) To relinquish control over.

This issue marks a first of its kind for St. Louis Magazine: We've given away our cover feature.[…] In early summer, our editors[…] posed a collective question: What if we asked some[…] citizens what the future should look like? We'll give each of them[…] 200 words of space in the magazine[…].

意味（3）

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

Who giveth away this woman to this man in Holy matrimony?

意味（4）

(transitive, sometimes reflexive) To unintentionally reveal a secret, divulge undisclosed information, or expose someone.

He gave himself away with a stupid lie.

意味（5）

(transitive) To concede an advantage in weight, time, height etc.

Despite giving away twenty pounds in weight, the challenger found a knock-out blow in the second round.

意味（6）

(sports) To concede.

England gave away six penalties in the first 15 minutes and were lucky to still have 15 men on the pitch, but Kvirikashvili missed two very makeable penalties in quick succession as Georgia were unable to take advantage of significant territorial advantage.