1.
If you ~ something, you stop doing it or having it.
Coastguards had given up all hope of finding the two divers alive.
...smokers who ~ before 30.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n/-ing, V P
2.
If you ~, 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 ~ 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 ~ something that you have or that you are entitled to, you allow someone else to have it.
Georgia refuses to ~ 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