if you give something up as lost, you believe that you will not find it and you stop looking for it
if you give yourself up, you allow yourself to be arrested by the police
to allow someone to have something that was yours
to stop doing something that you are trying hard to do
to stop doing something that you do regularly
to stop thinking or believing something
to use your time for one activity instead of another
Decide what you want and then don’t give up until you’ve achieved it.
Doing this course will mean giving up a lot of my spare time.
Giving up his job was the last thing we expected him to do.
Harrell would be there, just waiting, knowing he would not give up or be allowed to give up.
He had given up the idea of marriage altogether.
He had to give up his own little hidey-hole in the stockroom to clear a space for them to hang their coats.
He was waving a knife, drunk, screaming I should give up the car.
His wife finally persuaded him to give up smoking.
It was a difficult time, but we never gave up hope.
Nobody cared enough to give up a cargo to pay their last respects at the crematorium service.
The men who were still in the boat had given him up for dead.
The new arrangement would mean giving up some of their political independence.
They agreed to give half their office up to the temporary staff.
We’ve given up trying to persuade them to change.
gives up
giving up
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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