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give place

give place verb: to be replaced by something.

Verb

give place (third-person singular simple present gives place, present participle giving place, simple past gave place, past participle given place)

  1. To be replaced by something.
    • Telephone boxes have largely given place to mobile phones.
    • The line from Nyon to La Cure (17½ miles) was opened in 1916, and is on independent track throughout, leaving the road immediately after passing under the Swiss Federal line from Lausanne to Geneva, where grooved tramrails with tie-bars give place to steel-sleepered track.1954 September, George Behrend, “The Nyon-St. Cergue-Morez Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 605
  2. (dated) To yield.
    • Neither give place to the Devil.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ephesians 4:27

Synonyms of give place

Forms of give place

third-person singular presentgives place
present participlegiving place
pastgave place
past participlegiven place

Questions about give place

What does give place mean?
Give place means to be replaced by something.
What part of speech is give place?
Give place is a verb.
What is the past tense of give place?
The past tense of give place is gave place.

Words near give place in the dictionary

  1. give out
  2. give out stink
  3. give over
  4. give pause
  5. give paw
  6. give place
  7. give pursuit
  8. give rise to
  9. give some skin
  10. give someone a bell
  11. give someone a bloody nose

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