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What does give way mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word give way? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To yield to persistent persuasion.
  2. To collapse or break under physical stresses.
  3. To be followed, succeeded, or replaced by.
  4. To give precedence to other road users.
  5. To allow another person to intervene to make a point or ask a question whilst one is delivering a speech.
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The entrenched systems of control in the Arab world are beginning to give way.
Traffic lights were green with a sign indicating that traffic making a left turn should give way.
A determined battle can make sure that the Labour government is forced to give way.
But once the upper floors began to give way, terrible force was set in motion.
It is distressing to see the impulse for integration give way to calls for segregation.
The company resisted as far as it could, but was forced to give way under the joint pressure of the workers and the government.

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