give away
v 1: make a gift of; "She gave away her antique furniture"
2: make known to the public information that was previously
known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a
secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at
which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal
how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news
to her" [syn: disclose, let on, bring out, reveal,
discover, expose, divulge, impart, break, let
out]
3: formally hand over to the bridegroom in marriage; of a bride
by her father
4: give away information about somebody; "He told on his
classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce, tell
on, betray, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag]
WordNet (r) 2.0
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "give away":
abandon, abjure, arrange a match, babble, be indiscreet,
be unguarded, bestow, betray, betray a confidence, blab, blabber,
blurt, blurt out, break, break open, break up, burst, cast,
cast aside, cast away, cast off, cede, chuck, come apart,
come unstuck, couple, crack, deep-six, devote, discard, disclose,
discover, disgorge, disintegrate, dispense with, dispose of, ditch,
divulge, do without, donate, drop, dump, eighty-six, eliminate,
fall to pieces, fissure, forgo, forswear, fracture,
get along without, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give up,
give way, hand out, have done with, hitch, inform, inform on,
jettison, jilt, join, join together, kiss good-bye, leak, let drop,
let fall, let slip, make a match, make a sacrifice, make one,
marry, match, mouth, nuptial, part with, peach, present, quitclaim,
rat, recant, reject, relinquish, remove, render up, renounce,
resign, retract, reveal a secret, rupture, sacrifice, sing, slough,
snap, spare, spill, spill the beans, splice, split, spring a leak,
squeal, start, stool, surrender, swear off, talk, tattle,
tattle on, tell, tell on, tell secrets, tell tales, throw away,
throw out, throw over, throw overboard, throw up, toss overboard,
unite, unite in marriage, vacate, waive, wed, yield
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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