GIVE UP ON (SOMEBODY/SOMETHING)


Meaning of GIVE UP ON (SOMEBODY/SOMETHING) in English

give up on somebody/something phrasal verb ( see also ↑ give )

to stop hoping that someone or something will change or improve:

He’d been in a coma for six months, and doctors had almost given up on him.

At that point, I hadn’t completely given up on the marriage.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.