1. (verb) move over, give way, give, ease up, yield
move in order to make room for someone for something
"The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd"
2. (verb) collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
break down, literally or metaphorically
"The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"
3. (verb) give way, yield
end resistance, as under pressure or force
"The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram"
4. (verb) fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
stop operating or functioning
"The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"
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Definitions of give way 
Afrikaans: plek maak vir
Arabic: يَفْسَحُ مجالا لِ، يُعْطي
Bulgarian: отдавам път
Brazilian: ceder a vez
Czech: dát přednost
German: freie Bahn lassen
Danish: stoppe op
Greek: δίνω προτεραιότητα (για κ
Spanish: ceder el paso
Estonian: teed andma
Farsi: راه دادن
Finnish: väistää
French: céder
Hebrew: לפנות דרך
Hindi: रास्ता देना
Croatian: propustiti
Hungarian: elsőbbséget ad (vkinek)
Indonesian: berhenti
Icelandic: víkja
Italian: dare la precedenza
Japanese: ゆずる
Korean: 양보하다
Lithuanian: praleisti
Latvian: dot ceļu; palaist garām
Malay: berhenti
Dutch: voorrang geven
Norwegian: vike for
Polish: ustąpić
Persian: راه دادن
Pashto: لاړه ورکول
Portuguese: ceder a mão
Romanian: a ceda trecerea
Russian: пропускать
Slovak: uvoľniť cestu, dať predno
Slovenian: dati prednost
Serbian: propustiti
Swedish: lämna företräde
Thai: หลีกทาง
Turkish: yol vermek
Taiwanese: 讓路
Ukrainian: давати дорогу
Urdu: رک کر کسی اور کو جانے دین
Vietnamese: dừng lại nhường đường
Chinese: 让路
