| VERB | motion | give way, move over, give, ease up, yield | move in order to make room for someone for something |
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| motion | give way, collapse, fall in, cave in, give, break, founder | break down, literally or metaphorically | |
| change | give way, yield | end resistance, as under pressure or force | |
| change | give way, fail, go bad, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down | stop operating or functioning |
| Meaning | Move in order to make room for someone for something. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
| Model | These cars won't give way | |
| Synonyms | move over, give, ease up, yield | |
| Caused by | retire, strike out | Cause to get out |
| Broader | move | Move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion |
| Similar to | abandon, give up | stop maintaining or insisting on |
| Spanish | apartar, retirar | |
| Catalan | cedir | |
| Meaning | break down, literally or metaphorically. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
| Synonyms | collapse, fall in, cave in, give, break, founder | |
| Caused by | collapse, burst | Cause to burst |
| Narrower | break | curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves |
| buckle, crumple | Fold or collapse | |
| flop | fall loosely | |
| implode, go off | Burst inward / inward | |
| slump, slide down, sink | fall or sink heavily | |
| Broader | change | Undergo a change |
| Similar to | abandon, give up | stop maintaining or insisting on |
| collapse, burst | Cause to burst | |
| Spanish | caer, ceder, colapsar, derrumbarse, desplomarse, desplomar, irse a pique, romperse | |
| Catalan | desplomar | |
| Meaning | end resistance, as under pressure or force. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonym | yield | |
| Broader | change | Undergo a change |
| Spanish | ceder, sucumbir | |
| Catalan | cedir, sucumbir | |
| Meaning | stop operating or functioning. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Synonyms | fail, go bad, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down | |
| Narrower | blow out, burn out, blow | melt, break, or become otherwise unusable |
| crash, go down | stop operating | |
| malfunction, misfunction | fail to function or function improperly | |
| misfire | fail to fire or detonate | |
| Broader | change | Undergo a change |
| Similar to | break | Render inoperable or ineffective |
| 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 | Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain / sustain life | |
| Spanish | averiarse, estropearse, fallar, morir, pararse, perecer, romper | |
| Catalan | avariar-se, espatllar-se, fallar, parar-se | |
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