give place

English

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.
    • 1954 September, George Behrend, “The Nyon-St. Cergue-Morez Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 605:
      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.
    • 1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Salute to the "Claud Hamiltons" & "Directors"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 115:
      When Nos. 1870 to 1879 emerged, in 1902, the circular front windows of the cab had given place to much larger windows, conforming to the shape of the cab roof on top and the firebox top below, [...].
  2. (dated) To yield.
    Synonyms: give ground, give way

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