"give someone to understand" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gives someone to understand",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giving someone to understand",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gave someone to understand",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "given someone to understand",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "give<,,gave,given> someone to understand"
      },
      "expansion": "give someone to understand (third-person singular simple present gives someone to understand, present participle giving someone to understand, simple past gave someone to understand, past participle given someone to understand)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Revelations”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 264:",
          "text": "Hadn't she explained and described and even—though lightly, of course; she couldn't say such a thing directly—given him to understand that this was the one unforgivable thing.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To tell someone, especially indirectly; to insinuate."
      ],
      "id": "en-give_someone_to_understand-en-verb-6H4oqYSU",
      "links": [
        [
          "tell",
          "tell"
        ],
        [
          "indirectly",
          "indirectly"
        ],
        [
          "insinuate",
          "insinuate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To tell someone, especially indirectly; to insinuate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "give someone to understand"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gives someone to understand",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giving someone to understand",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gave someone to understand",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "given someone to understand",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "give<,,gave,given> someone to understand"
      },
      "expansion": "give someone to understand (third-person singular simple present gives someone to understand, present participle giving someone to understand, simple past gave someone to understand, past participle given someone to understand)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Revelations”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 264:",
          "text": "Hadn't she explained and described and even—though lightly, of course; she couldn't say such a thing directly—given him to understand that this was the one unforgivable thing.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To tell someone, especially indirectly; to insinuate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tell",
          "tell"
        ],
        [
          "indirectly",
          "indirectly"
        ],
        [
          "insinuate",
          "insinuate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To tell someone, especially indirectly; to insinuate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "give someone to understand"
}