give out

verb

Etymology: Cognate with German ausgeben (“spend, pay, output”).

To utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report.
“The best news is that we have safely found Our king and company: the next, our ship,— Which but three glasses since we gave out split,— Is tight and yare, and bravely rigg'd as when We first put out to sea.”
“So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have “broken his digester.””
To utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report.
To send forth, emit; to cause to be sent forth.
To send forth, emit; to cause to be sent forth.
To issue; to distribute.
“Can you help me to give out the new books to the class, please?”
To cease functioning in some way.
To cease functioning in some way.
To cease functioning in some way.
“So your old car finally gave out, did it?”
To cease functioning in some way.
To complain, sulk, chastise.
“You shouldn't give out to your brother like that.”
“He was always giving out about the weather.”
To pretend or act as if something is true.
“I gave out that I was at home, but they didn't ask for an alibi.”
To express oneself intensely emotionally, either by talking or in a musical performance.
“He's been giving out for hours.”