Give Up

Definition: Give Up

Give Up

Verb

1. Lose or lose the right to by some error, offense, or crime.

2. Give up with the intent of never claiming again; "Abandon your life to God"; "She gave up her children to her ex-husband when she moved to Tahiti"; "We gave the drowning victim up for dead".

3. Give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up".

4. Put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother".

5. To give up as not strictly needed: he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey.

6. Part with.

7. Leave voluntarily; of a job, post or position; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant".

8. Relinquish possession or control over; "The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in".

9. Give up or agree to forego to the power or possession of another.

10. : stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas, claims, etc.; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give in these negociations".

11. : allow the other team to score: "give up a run", in baseball.

12. : refrain from consuming; "You will have to forgo alcohol".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Give Up

Cessation

Have done with, give over, surcease, shut up shop; give up; (relinquish).

Death

Verb: die, expire, perish; meet one's death, meet one's end; pass away, be taken; yield one's breath, resign one's breath; resign one's being, resign one's life; end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly career; breathe one's last; cease to live, cease to breathe; depart this life; be no more. Adjective: go off, drop off, pop off; lose one's life, lay down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life; drop into the grave, sink into the grave; close one's eyes; fall dead, drop dead, fall down dead, drop down dead; break one's neck; give up the ghost, yield up the ghost; be all over with one.

Hopelessness

Verb: despair; lose all hope, give up all hope, abandon all hope, relinquish all hope, lose the hope of, give up the hope of, abandon the hope of, relinquish the hope of; give up, give over; yield to despair; falter; despond; (be dejected); jeter le manche apres la cognee.

Rejection

Verb: reject; set aside, lay aside; give up; decline; (refuse); exclude, except; pluck, spin; cast.

Relinquishment

Verb: relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip; spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate, give away, dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf; (disuse); set aside, put aside, put away; make away with, cast behind; maroon.

Verb: relinquish, give up, abandon, desert, forsake, leave in the lurch; go back on; depart from, secede from, withdraw from; back out of; leave, quit, take leave of, bid a long farewell; vacate; (resign).

Throw up the game, throw up the cards; give up the point, give up the argument; pass to the order of the day, move to the previous question.

Resignation

Verb: resign; give up, throw up; lay down, throw up the cards, wash one's hands of, abjure, renounce, forego, disclaim, retract; deny.

Restitution

Verb: return, restore; give back, carry back, bring back; render, render up; give up; let go, unclutch; disgorge, regorge; regurgitate; recoup, reimburse, compensate, indemnify; remit, rehabilitate; repair; (make good).

Submission

Surrender, surrender at discretion; cede, capitulate, come to terms, retreat, beat a retreat; draw in one's horns; (humility); give way, give round, give in, give up; cave in; suffer judgment by default; bend, bend to one's yoke, bend before the storm; reel back; bend down, knuckle down, knuckle to, knuckle under; knock under.

Crosswords: Give Up

You give up your seat every day in the train. (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan; Fredric LeBow)

You want some now? Never give up a good thing. (Starship Troopers; writing credit: Edward Neumeier. Based on the novel by Robert A. Heinlein.)

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

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

Never give up. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I'd give up everything (When I'm Gone; performing artist: 3 DOORS DOWN)

I would give up everything (Thank God I Found You; performing artist: 98 Degrees)

Sometimes I wanna give up (When I See You Smile; performing artist: Bad English)

You're gonna give up without a sound (THE MAIN EVENT/FIGHT; performing artist: Barbra Streisand)

Give up my life, my heart, my home. (Everything I Own; performing artist: Bread)

Don't give up. Moses was once a basket case! (references; author: unknown)

Never Give Up (1974)

Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)

So You Want to Give Up Smoking (1942)

Don't Give Up (1930)

Give Up Yer Aul Sins (2001)

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

Books

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

• Never Give Up (Svh Senior Year (Sweet Valley High), 40) (reference)

• Never Give Up and Go For It! Letters from Inspirational Heroes (reference)

• Reach for the Stars: Give Up the Good to Go for the Great (Gift of Inspiration) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Never Give Up : 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Don't Give Up on Me (reference)

• Give Out But Don't Give Up (reference)

• Traitor in Our Midst/Don't Give Up Your Day Job (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

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

Alice Paul : author of the ERA, January 11, 1885-July 9, 1977 : she will die, but she will never give up. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We will immediately give up the son of Llywelyn and all the hostages of Wales, and the charters delivered to us as security for the peace. (reference)

It is this makes them so willingly give up every one his single power of punishing, to be exercised by such alone, as shall be appointed to it amongst them; and by such rules as the community, or those authorized by them to that purpose, shall agree on. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They will give up Cosette.

Promise God now that you will give up that sin, that wretched wretched sin.

Actually, I'd give up writing if I could see a naked girl while I was eating ice cream.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

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

People should not give up or avoid eating these foods without talking to their doctor first. (references)

Conversely, women who give up smoking early in pregnancy have infants of similar weight to those of nonsmokers. (references)

Business

As with all bureaucracies, entities and persons give up powers reluctantly. (references)

However, as soon as they are confronted with the price differential, they tend to buy cheaper products and give up quality for price. (references)

Workers and management alike share this mentality and will give up their annual vacation only in the most dire of economic circumstances. (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

Malawi

Police officers demanded that the journalists either surrender their camera or give up the digital camera diskettes with the photographs. (references)

Yugoslavia

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

Travel

Egypt

A few foreign firms come to Egypt and give up after a short stay. (references)

Women

Iran

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

Worker Rights

Kenya

The COTU leadership generally does not pursue workers' rights vigorously; however, most affiliates chose to remain rather than give up its even minimal support. (references)

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

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

Expressions using "give up": don't give up hope ♦ get smb. to give up ♦ give up a claim ♦ give up a shout ♦ give up doing ♦ give up his life for his country ♦ give up hope ♦ give up hope for ♦ give up hope of ♦ give up of ♦ give up one's brief ♦ give up one's life to musique ♦ give up or yield up ♦ give up smoking ♦ give up the ghost ♦ give up to the police ♦ swear to give up ♦ To give up ♦ To give up the ghost. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afstaan (cede, give, give in, give way, relinquish, yield). (various references)

Albanian

pres shpresat (give oneself up to), lë (allow, break off, chuck, cut, drop, dump, grant, jilt, jump, leave, let, let by, Miss, omit, overjump, overleap, Park, pass up, permit, put, quit, release, relinquish, resign, tek pupa, vacate, yield), jepem (be addicted, be given, betake oneself to, succumb, surrender), heq dorë (abdicate, cede, chuck, depart, drop it, give oneself up to, kick, let up, release, remise, resign, tek pupa), dorëzoj (cede, consign, deliver, devolve, disgorge, get through, give, give back, give over, hand in, present, reach, serve, turn over, yield). (various references)

Arabic 

‏يئس (despair, give up the ghost, lose heart), ‏تنازل (abdicate, back down, cede, concede, concession, condescend, deign, demission, disclaimer, give ground, give in, part with, pass up, recede, recession, relinquish, renounce, renunciation, resignation, stand down, step down, surrender, transfer, waive, waiver, yield), ‏تخلى (abandon, assign, cast aside, cede, desist, disgorge, expose, forsake, go back on, hand over, leave, let down, part, quit, release, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, retreat, shake, shrift, sign away, slough, swear off, throw over, turn one's back on, vacate, waive, walk out on, yield), ‏ضجر (be fed up, bore, bored, boredom, dullness, fed up, importune, irk, plumb, tedium, tire, tiredness, weariness, weary), ‏إستسلم (capitulate, cave, give in, give way to, hands up, lay down, resign, submit, succumb, surrender, throw in one's hand). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отстъпвам (accede to, backpedal, backslide, backtrack, comply, concede, defer, deliver, draw back, fall back, give, give back, give ground, give in, give way to, knuckle under, part with, release, retire, retreat, retrocede, say uncle, stand aside, stand back, step back, submit, succumb, vail), отказвам се от (abandon, abnegate, call off, decline, deny oneself, disavow, discard, disclaim, forwent, give away, give oneself up, jettison, part with, pass up, put away, remise, renounce, repudiate, retract, surrender, toss over, turn from, turn in, yield), отписвам (cancel, cross out, strike off a name), предавам (carry, convey, deliver, denounce, get through, give, give in, give over, hand in, hand over, impart, pass along, pass in, pass round, put out, render, reproduce, resign, sell down the river, sell out, send, send on, send out, submit, transfuse, turn over, yield). (various references)

Chinese 

罷手 , 罷休 (abandon, forget it, let it go, let matter drop), 挹 (ladle out, pour out), 捨 , �" (crooked, indeed, to commission). (various references)

Czech

zříci se (abjure, disclaim, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, waive), zanechat (forsake, leave, relinquish), vzdát se (abnegate, concede, dispense with, forsake, give away, give in, give oneself up, lay down, lie down, relinquish, renounce), vìnovat (dedicate, devote, give, pay, put in, spend), považovat za (consider as, hold, hold for, take for). (various references)

Danish

give efter (cede, give in, give way, relinquish, yield). (various references)

Dutch

zwichten (cede, give in, give way, hesitate, relinquish, waver, yield), wýken (cease, cede, disappear, give in, give way, relinquish, stop, yield), uitvallen (abandon, collapse, fall, fall off, go on the blink, malfunction, renounce, resign, tumble down), toegeven (accede, acknowledge, acknowledgement, add, admission, admit, agree, cede, concede, confess, consent, give in, give way, grant, profess, relinquish, yield), opgeven (abandon, lose, renounce, resign, say, tell), het veld ruimen (cede, give in, give way, relinquish, yield), afstand doen van (abandon, abdicate, renounce, resign), afstaan (abandonment, cede, give in, give way, relinquish, yield). (various references)

Esperanto

rezigni (abandon, renounce, resign), cedi (cede, give in, give way, relinquish, yield). (various references)

Faeroese

lata sær lynda (abandon, cede, give in, give way, relinquish, renounce, resign, yield), eftirlíka (cede, give in, give way, relinquish, yield). (various references)

Finnish

väistyä (cede, give in, give way, recede, relinquish, step aside, withdraw, yield), alistua (abandon, reconcile oneself, renounce, resign, resign oneself, submit, yield). (various references)

French

renoncer (give ground, give it to smb., give oneself up, give the right of way), abandonner (give in, give way). (various references)

Frisian

ôfstean (cede, give in, give way, relinquish, yield). (various references)

German

verzichten (abandon, abdicate, abstain, do without, forgo, make sacrifices, refuse, relinquish, renounce, resign, sign away, to renounce, waive), nachgeben (back down, budge, cave in, cede, climb down, drop, ease, fall, give in, give way, indulge, pander, relent, relinquish, submit, to give in, to give way, weaken, yield). (various references)

Greek 

παραιτούμαι (abdicate, abnegate, desist, disclaim, forgo, go without, leave, quit, relinquish, relinquish to, resign, resign from, waive). (various references)

Hebrew 

למסור (convey, deliver, forward, give, give in, hand, hand over, impart, render, turn in), לותר (cede, concede, forgo, give ground, give in, pass up, relinquish, renounce, resign, surrender, throw up), ל�"תיאש (despair, give up hope, lose heart), ל�"ת� זר (abstain, deny onself, shun), ל�"פקיר (abandon, forfeit, forsake), ל�"כ� ע (buckle under, capitulate, give in, give way to, knuckle under, resign, submit, succumb, surrender, throw in ones hand, yield). (various references)

Hungarian

lemond (abandon, abdicate, back down, demit, denounce, disclaim, forgo, renounce, resign, to abdicate, to call off, to disclaim, to discontinue, to eschew, to renounce, to resign, to surrender, to throw up, to waive). (various references)

Indonesian

menyerah (capitulate, surrender). (various references)

Italian

cedere (abandon, assign, cede, crack, devote, give, give in, give way, hand over, knuckle, relent, relinquish, render, sag, sell, submit, succumb, surrender, yield), abbandonare (abandon, abdicate, bolt, desert, discard, dismiss, dump, fail, forsake, leave, leave behind, let oneself go, quit, register, relinquish, renounce, resign, Slough, surrender). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"上 (let loose, relinquish, serve up), ギターの弦 (boy, fee paid to performing artists, gadget bag, gag, gal, gallery, gammon, gap, gather, gathered skirt, gibberellin, gift, gift card, gift certificate, gift check, gift coupon, gift package, gift shop, gimmick, give-and-take, guarantee, guignol, Guiness Book of Records, guitar amplifier, guitar magazine, guitar string, guitar synthesizer, guitarist, gypsum, kind of Indian spice, male waiter, teenage mother). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ギブアップ , へ�"じょう (let loose, relinquish, serve up). (various references)

Manx

faagail (abandon, bequeath, depart, descend, disembark, ditch, flitting, forsake, hand down, keep on, leave, leaving, maroon, outgoing, quit, quitting, relinquish, retire, season; vacating, seasoning, strand, throw over). (various references)

Pig Latin

ivegay upay

Portuguese

ceder (break, bring to one's knees, cede, convey, demise, desist, dispose of, fold, give in, give way, go, hand over, humor, humour, indulge, knuckle under, part with, prelude, pull off, relinquish, resign, sag, sell, sink, spare, submit, succumb, to yield, transfer, truckle, vail, vend, weaken, yield). (various references)

Romanian

renunţa (discard, disclaim, drop out, relinquish, surrender), preda (deliver, give, profess, render, surrender, teach, yield), nu pot da rãspuns, denunţa (accuse, delate, denounce, split on), considera pierdut, abandona o luptã. (various references)

Russian 

сдаваться (capitulate, give in, surrender, throw in one's hand), оставить (leave behind), бросать (cast, cast off, на корме, dart, dash, drop, dump, fling, give over, heave, hurl, jilt, launch, pitched, plant, project, put, quit, relinquish, shoot, slam down, slinging, slings, slung, threw, throw, throw over, thrown, toss), покинуть. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prepustiti (leave), pokleknuti, odviknuti (break of a habit), odustati (abjure, backtrack, baulk, drop, drop out, lay off, pass up, quit, recede, remise, scratch, withdraw). (various references)

Spanish

ceder (acquiesce, assign, budge, cede, concede, dispose of, give, give in, give way, go, grant, hand over, make over, part with, relent, relinquish, render up, sign away, sign over, transfer, turn over, waive, yield), abandonar (abandon, bolt, break, call off, cast away, cede, chuck, clear away, come off, come up, desert, ditch, drop, drop out, flee, forsake, give in, give way, iron out, jack in, lead off, leave, leave over, let into, quit, relinquish, resign, retire, take away, take from, take off, tear down, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, toss aside, walk out, walk out on, weaken, withdraw, yield). (various references)

Swedish

uppge (abandon, declare, forgo, give, report, surrender), lämna (abandon, desert, drop, forsake, furnish, give, hand, hand down, jack in, leave, leaving, offer, quit, render, vacate, yield), ge upp (abandon, back track, call it a day, concede, curl up, cut, deliver up, fink, fling up, forsake, give in, lay down, relinquish, scuttle, throw over, throw up, waive), avträda, avstå (abstain, cede, desist, refrain, relinquish, resign). (various references)

Turkish

vazgeçmek (abandon, back down, back down from, back out, back out of, back track, backtrack, be off, beat a retreat, cease, cede, change one's mind, cry off, cut loose, declare off, desist, disclaim, dispense with, do without, drop the reins, forbear, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, go without, jack in, kick, leave, leave off, opt out, quit, recant, recede, relinquish, remit, renounce, resign, retract, sink, Stow, surrender, swerve, throw over, throw up, turn about, turn around, turn up, unlearn, waive, wangle, wangle out of), teslim etmek (cede, commit, confide, consign, deliver, deliver up, give in, hand in, hand over, own, resign, submit, surrender, turn in, turn over, yield up), teslím etmek (cede, give in, give way, relinquish, yield), pes etmek (cave, cry uncle, knuckle down, knuckle under, succumb, surrender, throw in the towel, throw up the sponge), istifa etmek (demit, go out, quit, resign, resign one's office, step aside, step down, submit one's resignation, tender one's resignation, vacate), ele vermek (betray, blow the whistle on, delate, finger, give away, grass, grass on smb., peach against, peach on, put on the scent, sell, shop, split on), bırakmak (abandon, allow, break oneself of a habit, chuck, consign, demise, discontinue, dismiss, dispose of, drop, drop in, drop out, edge out, expose, fail, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, go without, grow, hand down, jack in, jilt, kick, lay down, lay off, leave, leave off, let, let go, let smb. have it, offload, outgrow, plant, put, put away, put off, put to, quit, release, release one's hold, relinquish, renounce, resign, revolt from, stop, surrender, take one's farewell of, throw over, unclasp, unlearn, unloose, walk out), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw), adamak (commit, consecrate, dedicate, devote, offer, vow, Wed, wed with), çökmek (abandon, bend, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, cower, crack, crack up, crouch, crumple, crumple up, decline, descend, dip, fall down, fall in, fold, fold up, founder, give way, gravitate, renounce, resign, sag, settle, sink, slump, slump down, squat, subside). (various references)

Turkmen 

taslamak, яitirmek (lose, spend). (various references)

Ukrainian

відмовитися, поступитися (succumb), покинути (maroon, quit). (various references)

aliena, alienas, alienati, alienatus, alienavit, alieno, concedo, dedere, dederis, dederisque, dedi, dedimus, dedique, dedis, dedit, deditam, deditos, deditque, deseram, deserant, deserat, desere, deserebat, deserentes, deserenti, deserere, deseretur, deserit, deserta, desertae, desertam, desertarum, desertas, deserti, desertis, deserto, desertos, desertum, desertus, deseruerunt, deseruisse, desieris, desierunt, desiit, desinam, desinant, desinas, desinat, desine, desines, desinet, desinis, desinite, desisset, desit, desiveris, desivimus, desivit, despero, destituant, destituens, destituerunt, destituta, destitutae, destitutam, dimiserant, dimiserat, dimiseratis, dimiseris, dimiserit, dimiseritis, dimisero, dimiserunt, dimiseruntque, dimisi, dimisimus, dimisissem, dimisisses, dimisisset, dimisisti, dimisistis, dimisit, dimisitque, dimissa, dimissam, dimissi, dimissis, dimisso, dimissum, dimissus, dimittam, dimittamini, dimittantur, dimittas, dimittat, dimittatis, dimittatur, dimitte, dimittebantur, dimittemus, dimittendi, dimittens, dimittent, dimittentes, dimittentur, dimittere, dimitteremus, dimitterentur, dimitteres, dimitteret, dimittes, dimittesque, dimittet, dimittetis, dimittetur, dimitteturque, dimitti, dimittimus, dimittis, dimittit, dimittite, dimittitis, dimittitur, dimittunt, dimittuntur, laxo, mancipo, permittere, prodere, proderet, proderis, prodiderat, prodideris, prodit, proditi, proditor, redono, relinquere, resignare. (various references)

alecgan. (various references)

surrendre. (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

-2 letters: give.

-3 letters: gie, gip, guv, peg, pie, pig, piu, pug, veg, vie, vig, vug.

-4 letters: pe, pi, up.

+2 letters: prevuing.

+3 letters: purgative, purveying, upheaving.

+4 letters: purgatives.

+5 letters: overpumping, oversupping, pulverising, pulverizing, supervening, supervising.