1.
If you give up something, you stop doing it or having it.
Coastguards had given up all hope of finding the two divers alive.
...smokers who give up before 30.
PHRASAL VERB : V P n / -ing , V P
2.
If you give up , you decide that you cannot do something and stop trying to do it.
After a fruitless morning sitting at his desk he had given up.
PHRASAL VERB : V P
3.
If you give up your job, you resign from it.
She gave up her job to join her husband’s campaign...
He is thinking of giving up teaching.
PHRASAL VERB : V P n / -ing (not pron ), V P n / -ing (not pron )
4.
If you give up something that you have or that you are entitled to, you allow someone else to have it.
Georgia refuses to give up any territory...
One of the men with him gave up his place on the bench.
PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron) , V P n (not pron)
5.
If you give yourself up , you let the police or other people know where you are, after you have been hiding from them.
A 28-year-old man later gave himself up and will appear in court today.
PHRASAL VERB : V pron-refl P