TO GIVE UP

Definition: TO GIVE UP

TO GIVE UP

1. (a) To abandon; to surrender. ``Don't give up the ship.'' He has . . . given up For certain drops of salt, your city Rome. --Shak. (b) To make public; to reveal. I'll not state them By giving up their characters. --Beau. & Fl. (c) (Used also reflexively.) To give up the ghost . See under Ghost .

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO GIVE UP

What if you were to give up your strength for 24 hours say, the next 24 hours? (Hercules; writing credit: Ron Clements; Barry Johnson)

My father was a quitter, my grandfather was a quitter; I was raised to give up! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

You're going to give up 200 dollars just because you're a little embarrassed? (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

I guess I picked the wrong week to give up smoking. (Zero Hour!; writing credit: Arthur Hailey)

To live better, to own things I couldn't afford, to acquire this good taste that you now enjoy and which I should be very reluctant to give up. (To Catch a Thief; writing credit: David Dodge; John Michael Hayes)

Trying not to give up props to the worlds best (I Wanna Rock; performing artist: Prince)

When you feel lost and about to give up to give up ("Reach Out I'll Be There"; performing artist: The Four Tops)

So You Want to Give Up Smoking (1942)

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Books

• Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow (reference)

• Do I Have to Give Up Me to Be Loved by You? (Second Edition) (reference)

• The Tiger's Child: The Story of a Gifted, Troubled Child and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her (reference)

  (more book examples)

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A Great Blue Heron trying valiantly to swallow a large fish. He finally had to give up. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community, must be understood to give up all the power, necessary to the ends for which they unite into society, to the majority of the community, unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He felt doubly enraged, enraged at being compelled to give up the bribe which he hoped for, and enraged at being beaten.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

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Health

Some people may have to give up the physician or hospital with which they are familiar. (references)

Business

HSCSD was developed to increase the speed of network connection through circuit-switching by combining up to 4 channel cells to give up to 57.6 Kbps (similar to the speed of ISDN). (references)

Children

Cambodia

In some of these cases, the perpetrators encouraged women to give up their children under false pretenses, for example, by promising to care for the children temporarily but then refusing to return them. (references)

Civil Liberties

Yugoslavia

Refugees who applied for Yugoslav citizenship were forced to give up their Bosnian or Croatian citizenship to become eligible for Yugoslav citizenship. (references)

Belarus

After the September election, activist youth groups reported that their membership was been greatly reduced because students were pressured to give up their membership in opposition groups in order to stay in school; young male students expelled from school are subject to compulsory military service. (references)

Economic History

India

However there is no bar on a higher foreign equity holding if the unit is willing to give up its small-scale status. (references)

Greece

Companies that fail to meet the specified performance requirements may be forced to give up the incentives they were initially granted. (references)

Uzbekistan

An ambitious privatization program is stalled due to lack of investor interest, compounded by government reluctance to give up controlling shares or accept realistic (lower) bids. (references)

Political Rights

Yugoslavia

This sparked citizen protests in Belgrade and a general strike in favor of the opposition beginning on October 2, 2000 which culminated in a mass demonstration on October 5, 2000 by half a million citizens calling for Milosevic to give up power. (references)

Women

Iran

Women who remarry are forced to give up to the child's father custody of children from earlier marriages. (references)

Libya

In general the emancipation of women is a generational phenomenon: Urban women under the age of 35 tend to have more "modern" attitudes toward life and have discarded the traditional veil; at the same time, older urban women tend to be more reluctant to give up the veil or traditional attitudes toward family and employment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "TO GIVE UP": get smb. to give up ♦ swear to give up ♦ To give up the ghost. Additional references.

Arabic 

فوت (be over). (various references)

Chinese 

舍 (residence, to abandon), �"�棄 (to abandon, to renounce), 捨棄 (to abandon, to abort). (various references)

Finnish

saada joku luopumaan jostakin (persuade a person to give up sth). (various references)

German

aufgeben (abandon, check in, cry uncle, discontinue, dispatch, forsake, give in, give up, jack in, jettison, lay aside, lay away, mail, part with, place, post, quit, register, relinquish, renounce, resign, say uncle, serve, set, submit, surrender, to abdicate, to capitulate, to dismiss, to relinquish, to surrender, vacate, yield). (various references)

Hungarian

megválik vmitől, lemond vmiről (to despair, to go without sg, to pass up, to relinquish, to throw up sg, to write off), kiszolgáltat (deliver, extradite, to consign, to deliver, to extradite), kézre ad. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

諦める (to abandon), 踏み止まる (to hold one's ground, to hold out, to remain, to stay on, to stop), 見限る (to abandon, to turn one's back), 見離す (to abandon), 見�"�す (to abandon, to desert), 措く (to except), 思い止まる (to desist from), 思い止どまる (to desist from), 思いとどまる (to desist from), 止す (to abolish, to cease, to resign), �"�り出す (to abandon, to expel, to fire, to neglect, to throw out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おもいとどまる (to desist from), おく (hesitant, hundred million, inner part, interior, pig iron, timid, to except, to place, to put), ふみとどまる (to hold one's ground, to hold out, to remain, to stay on, to stop), ほうり� す (to abandon, to expel, to fire, to neglect, to throw out), あきらめる (to abandon), よす (to abolish, to cease, to resign), みかぎる (to abandon, to turn one's back), みはなす (to abandon, to desert). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay ivegay upay

Russian 

закаяться (forswear, swear to give up). (various references)

Turkish

tövbe etmek (abjure, forswear, repent, swear off, swear to give up, vow not to do it again), bırakacağına yemin etmek (swear off, swear to give up). (various references)

condonare, despondere. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: outgive.

-2 letters: outvie, pigout.

-3 letters: getup, ogive, pivot, togue, vogie, vogue.

-4 letters: etui, give, gout, poet, pout, tope, topi, veto, vote.

-5 letters: ego, get, gie, gip, git, got, gut, guv, ope, opt, out, peg, pet, pie, pig, pit, piu, poi, pot, pug, put, teg, tie, tip, toe, tog, top, tug, tui, tup, upo, veg, vet.

+4 letters: overtrumping.

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