if you give something up as lost, you believe that you will not find it and you stop looking for it
Example: Decide what you want and then don’t give up until you’ve achieved it.
if you give yourself up, you allow yourself to be arrested by the police
Example: Doing this course will mean giving up a lot of my spare time.
to allow someone to have something that was yours
Example: Giving up his job was the last thing we expected him to do.
to stop doing something that you are trying hard to do
Example: Harrell would be there, just waiting, knowing he would not give up or be allowed to give up.
to stop doing something that you do regularly
Example: He had given up the idea of marriage altogether.
to stop thinking or believing something
Example: He had to give up his own little hidey-hole in the stockroom to clear a space for them to hang their coats.
to use your time for one activity instead of another
Example: He was waving a knife, drunk, screaming I should give up the car.
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