Give Away
How to Conjugate Give Away
- Infinitive: Give Away
- Present Tense: Give Away/ Gives Away
- -ing Form: Giving Away
- Past Tense: Gave Away
- Past Participle: Given Away
Definitions of Give Away:
1. To give something for free or without expecting anything in return. [Noun] {Giveaway}
Examples: The new mall will give away freebies to their first one-hundred customers.
My brother gave away his old bike to the kid next door.
Dad brought home lots of cool giveaways from the World Tech Expo.
2. To accidentally reveal a secret.
Examples: Don’t give away the movie’s ending!
Why did you give away the surprise? I told you not to say anything!
3. To give an advantage to your opponent, typically in sports.
Examples: The Denver Broncos didn’t give away the Superbowl to the Seahawks, because the Seahawks took it!
A good point guard never gives away who they are going to pass to, or which way they will go.
4. When a father gives his daughter to her husband in a marriage ceremony.
Examples: Sharon asked her uncle to give her away at the wedding since her father had died.
Paul will be giving away his daughter to Brad this Sunday.
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