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GIVE UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims
Example:
Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations
Synonyms:
abandon; give up
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Verb group:
ease up; give; give way; move over; yield (move in order to make room for someone for something)
break; cave in; collapse; fall in; founder; give; give way (break down, literally or metaphorically)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "give up"):
sell out (abandon one's principles for expedience or financial gain)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
Example:
In the second round, the challenger gave up
Synonyms:
chuck up the sponge; drop by the wayside; drop out; fall by the wayside; give up; quit; throw in; throw in the towel
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another
Example:
The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered
Synonyms:
give up; surrender
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "give up" is one way to...):
yield (cease opposition; stop fighting)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "give up"):
abnegate (surrender (power or a position))
concede (acknowledge defeat)
capitulate (surrender under agreed conditions)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sense 4
Meaning:
Stop consuming
Example:
give up alcohol
Synonyms:
give up; kick
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "give up" is one way to...):
dispense with; forego; foreswear; forgo; relinquish; waive (do without or cease to hold or adhere to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
Sense 5
Meaning:
Give up with the intent of never claiming again
Example:
We gave the drowning victim up for dead
Synonyms:
abandon; give up
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "give up"):
foreswear; quit; relinquish; renounce (turn away from; give up)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 6
Meaning:
Relinquish possession or control over
Example:
The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in
Synonyms:
cede; deliver; give up; surrender
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "give up" is one way to...):
gift; give; present (give as a present; make a gift of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "give up"):
yield up (surrender, as a result of pressure or force)
sell (give up for a price or reward)
sign away; sign over (formally assign ownership of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sense 7
Meaning:
Lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime
Example:
forfeited property
Synonyms:
forego; forfeit; forgo; give up; throw overboard; waive
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "give up" is one way to...):
abandon (forsake, leave behind)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "give up"):
lapse (let slip)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 8
Meaning:
Part with a possession or right
Example:
resign a claim to the throne
Synonyms:
free; give up; release; relinquish; resign
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "give up" is one way to...):
give; hand; pass; pass on; reach; turn over (place into the hands or custody of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "give up"):
give; sacrifice (endure the loss of)
derequisition (release from government control)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sense 9
Meaning:
Give up what is not strictly needed
Example:
he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey
Synonyms:
dispense with; give up; part with; spare
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "give up" is one way to...):
give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 10
Meaning:
Leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
Example:
The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds
Synonyms:
give up; renounce; resign; vacate
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "give up" is one way to...):
leave office; quit; resign; step down (give up or retire from a position)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "give up"):
abdicate; renounce (give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 11
Meaning:
Allow the other (baseball) team to score
Example:
give up a run
Synonyms:
allow; give up
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 12
Meaning:
Put an end to a state or an activity
Example:
Quit teasing your little brother
Synonyms:
cease; discontinue; give up; lay off; quit; stop
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "give up"):
drop; knock off (stop pursuing or acting)
leave off (stop using)
sign off (cease broadcasting; get off the air; as of radio stations)
retire; withdraw (withdraw from active participation)
pull the plug (prevent from happening or continuing)
close off; shut off (stem the flow of)
cheese (used in the imperative (get away, or stop it))
call it a day; call it quits (stop doing what one is doing)
break (give up)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
Sentence example:
They give up moving
Context examples:
Then on the third day, he sent for all his huntsmen, and said: “Scour the whole forest through, and do not give up until you have found all three.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“You don’t seem to have a very high opinion of my honour,” said he, “you want the money before you give up the book.”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Livesey, said the squire, you will give up this wretched practice at once.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
You may give up your purpose, but mine is assigned to me by Heaven, and I dare not.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Give up the letter and all will be set right.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
See if you can give up something meaningful to your client, but not so much to you for a more winning situation.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
As it was, he found Spencer's explanation of things convincing; and, as he phrased it to himself, to give up Spencer would be equivalent to a navigator throwing the compass and chronometer overboard.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
We had only been a few hours in Devonshire, and that he should give up an investigation which he had begun so brilliantly was quite incomprehensible to me.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"While snow likes to give up electrons, the performance of the device depends on the efficiency of the other material at extracting these electrons," Maher El-Kady, co-author and assistant researcher at UCLA, says.
(Nanogenerator Creates Electricity from Snowfall, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The case is so hopeless, and I feel that I am wallowing in such a bog of nonsense, that I give up all idea of getting out, and abandon myself to my fate.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
