If you ~ something or someone, you decide that you will never succeed in doing what you want to with them, and you stop trying to.
He urged them not to ~ peace efforts...
My teachers gave up on me.
PHRASAL VERB: V P P n, V P P n
If you ~ something or someone, you decide that you will never succeed in doing what you want to with them, and you stop trying to.
He urged them not to ~ peace efforts...
My teachers gave up on me.
PHRASAL VERB: V P P n, V P P n
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012