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  • verb transitive To give out; give of oneself; issue; endow; administer; transfer.

Etymologies

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From be- (“out, over, across”) +‎ give. Compare Dutch begeven ("to give up, forsake"), German begeben ("to issue, endow"), Danish begive ("to go"), Swedish begiva ("to proceed, start for, go").

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