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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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