verb
1. give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc. (Freq. 1)
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The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits
• Hyponyms:
↑effuse, ↑reflect, ↑shine, ↑spark, ↑sparkle, ↑radiate, ↑scintillate, ↑fume, ↑smoke, ↑reek, ↑shoot, ↑ray, ↑steam
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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Something ——s something
2. give to several people (Freq. 1)
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The teacher handed out the exams
• Syn: ↑distribute, ↑hand out, ↑pass out
• Derivationally related forms: ↑distributive (for: ↑distribute)
• Hyponyms: ↑share, ↑divvy up, ↑portion out, ↑apportion, ↑deal
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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Somebody ——s somebody something
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Somebody ——s something to somebody
3. stop operating or functioning
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The engine finally went
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The car died on the road
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The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
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The coffee maker broke
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The engine failed on the way to town
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her eyesight went after the accident
• Syn:
• Derivationally related forms: ↑breakdown (for: ↑break down), ↑breakable (for: ↑break), ↑failure (for: ↑fail)
• Hypernyms: ↑change
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• Verb Group:
↑die, ↑decease, ↑perish, ↑go, ↑exit, ↑pass away, ↑expire, ↑pass, ↑kick the bucket, ↑cash in one's chips, ↑buy the farm, ↑conk, ↑give-up the ghost, ↑drop dead, ↑pop off, ↑choke, ↑croak, ↑snuff it, ↑break
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
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These cars won't give out
4. prove insufficient
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The water supply for the town failed after a long drought
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
Useful english dictionary. 2012.