GIVE UP


Meaning of GIVE UP in English

verb

Etymology: Middle English given up, from given to give + up

transitive verb

1. : to hand over to or as if to another : relinquish , surrender

the death of his wife a few years later caused him to give up his … home — J.M.Phalen

things went from bad to worse until finally he had to give up his position — Scott Fitzgerald

2. : to breathe forth : emit — now used especially in the phrase give up the ghost

3. obsolete : to deliver verbally : present

how he may be brought to give up the clearest evidence — Francis Atterbury

4. : to have done with : desist from : forsake , sacrifice

men will never give up seeking to influence one another — R.M.Weaver

you wouldn't give up science or your career — Susan Ertz

gave the idea up in sheer weariness — T.B.Costain

5.

a. : to yield (oneself) to a particular feeling, influence, or activity : abandon

gave himself up completely to despair

shutting himself away from the world and giving himself up to writing his novel — Edmund Wilson

b. : to set apart or devote to a particular purpose or use — usually used in passive

Mondays and Tuesdays were often given up to drink, cockfights, bearbaiting — J.H.Plumb

6. : to declare incurable or insoluble

the patient was given up by the doctors

couldn't answer the riddle and so gave it up

7.

a. : to make public : reveal

we do not give up the names of our contributors — Lippincott's Magazine

b. : to make known (the name of a principal) in the process of completing a transaction on a stock exchange

8. : to despair of seeing

it's so late we gave you up — Charles Dickens

intransitive verb

: to withdraw from an activity or course of action often as an admission of failure : stop

had lost flies and broken leaders until he had given up — Alexander MacDonald

doctor tried to get your father to give up for a while — Ellen Glasgow

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