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by blacksmith_tb 2070 days ago
It's true that "gifted" (which I still find a bit grating regardless of its history) provides more detail, there's some lost nuance with "gave", since you can say "she gave me a glass of water" and "she gave me a painting for my birthday" but we wouldn't say "she gifted me a glass of water".