GIVE SB UP


Meaning of GIVE SB UP in English

1.

(also ˌgive ˈup on sb especially in NAmE ) to believe that sb is never going to arrive, get better, be found, etc. :

There you are at last! We'd given you up.

We hadn't heard from him for so long, we'd given him up for dead .

2.

to stop having a relationship with sb :

Why don't you give him up?

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.