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Definition of Give up
1. Verb. Lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime. "Forfeited property"
Generic synonyms: Abandon
Specialized synonyms: Lapse
Antonyms: Claim
Derivative terms: Forfeit, Forfeit, Forfeit, Forfeiture, Forfeiture, Forfeiture, Waiver
2. Verb. Give up with the intent of never claiming again. "We gave the drowning victim up for dead"
Specialized synonyms: Foreswear, Quit, Relinquish, Renounce
Derivative terms: Abandonment
3. Verb. Give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat. "In the second round, the challenger gave up"
Antonyms: Enter
Derivative terms: Quitter
4. Verb. Put an end to a state or an activity. "They give up moving "; "Quit teasing your little brother"
Specialized synonyms: Drop, Knock Off, Leave Off, Sign Off, Retire, Withdraw, Pull The Plug, Close Off, Shut Off, Cheese, Call It A Day, Call It Quits, Break
Derivative terms: Cease, Cessation, Discontinuance, Discontinuation, Stop, Stop, Stop, Stoppage
Antonyms: Continue
5. Verb. Give up what is not strictly needed. "He asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey"
6. Verb. Part with a possession or right. "Resign a claim to the throne"
Generic synonyms: Give, Hand, Pass, Pass On, Reach, Turn Over
Specialized synonyms: Derequisition, Give, Sacrifice
Derivative terms: Release, Release, Relinquishing, Relinquishment
7. Verb. Leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily. "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds"
Specialized synonyms: Abdicate, Renounce
Generic synonyms: Leave Office, Quit, Resign, Step Down
Derivative terms: Resignation, Vacant
8. Verb. Relinquish possession or control over. "The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in"
Generic synonyms: Gift, Give, Present
Specialized synonyms: Yield Up, Sell, Sign Away, Sign Over
Derivative terms: Cession, Surrender, Surrenderer
9. Verb. Give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another. "The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered"
Specialized synonyms: Abnegate, Concede, Capitulate
Generic synonyms: Yield
Antonyms: Resist
Derivative terms: Surrender, Surrender, Surrenderer
10. Verb. Stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims. "Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations"
Related verbs: Ease Up, Give, Give Way, Move Over, Yield, Break, Cave In, Collapse, Fall In, Founder, Give, Give Way
Derivative terms: Abandonment
11. Verb. Allow the other (baseball) team to score. "Give up a run"
12. Verb. Stop consuming. "Give up alcohol"
Definition of Give up
1. Verb. (transitive) to surrender ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) to stop or desist; to quit ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) to relinquish ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) to lose hope ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) to abandon ¹
6. Verb. (intransitive) to admit defeat, to capitulate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Give Up
Literary usage of Give up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"... profit and loss : and having ascertained this to his cost, he determined to
give up all forms of his beloved ' ' business" which required that talent. ..."
2. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
"George could not give up Amelia—George was married to her"—and then he related
the circumstances of the marriage, as we know them already, how the poor girl ..."
3. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1897)
"His refusal to give up the journals. ther famlies were cutt off by the Indians,
and they deserve just reparation here." But Berkeley declared that what ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"... to give up the militia for ten years, or even for life, and to grant
Presbyterianism for five years, provided that a regulated Episcopacy should follow. ..."
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