1.
If you give out a number of things, you distribute them among a group of people.
There were people at the entrance giving out leaflets.
= hand out
PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron) , also V n P
2.
If you give out information, you make it known to people.
He wouldn’t give out any information...
How often do you give your phone number out?
PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron) , V n P
3.
If a piece of equipment or part of the body gives out , it stops working.
All machines give out eventually...
One of his lungs gave out entirely.
PHRASAL VERB : V P , V P
4.
see give off