Definition of "give up"

give up

verb
third-person singular simple present gives up, present participle giving up, simple past gave up, past participle given up
1. (transitive) To surrender (someone or something)
2. (transitive) To stop or quit (an activity, etc.)
3. (transitive) To relinquish (something)
  Quotations
  "Dear Miss Woodhouse, I would not give up the pleasure and honour of being intimate with you for any thing in the world."
  1816, Jane Austen, chapter 7, in Emma, volume 1
4. (transitive) To lose hope concerning (someone or something)
5. (transitive) To abandon (someone or something)
  Quotations
  The semi-streamlined contour of the earlier G.W.R. railcars has been given up in favour of a more utilitarian blunt-nose end, and effective floor space gained thereby.
  1941 October, “Notes and News: Great Western Parcels Railcar”, in Railway Magazine, page 474
  Never gonna give you up / Never gonna let you down / Never gonna run around and desert you
  1987, Stock Aitken Waterman (lyrics and music), “Never Gonna Give You Up”, in Whenever You Need Somebody, performed by Rick Astley
  The optimistic peace-and-love philosophy of his youth having given him up, he no longer knew how to reconcile himself to an increasingly phoney (he loathed, in this context, the otherwise excellent word “virtual”) reality.
  2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, page 7
  "I tried retirement ten years ago. Didn't think much of it. Complete waste of time. So I gave it up after two weeks."
  2021 November 3, Adrian Shooter talks to Paul Clifton, “A lifetime of railway achievements”, in RAIL, number 943, page 34
6. (intransitive) To admit defeat, capitulate.
7. (transitive, baseball) Of a pitcher: to allow a hitter to make (a certain play).
  Quotations
  Fiers, who now pitches for the Oakland Athletics, has gone 27-12 with a no-hitter in two years since leaving the Astros. But the last time he faced them, on Sept. 9, he gave up nine runs, including five homers, and got just three outs.
  2019 November 14, Tyler Kepner, “After Reports of Astros’ Cheating, M.L.B. Is Left to Restore Trust”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, archived from the original on 2023-01-15
8. (transitive, finance) To execute a trade on behalf of another broker.
9. (intransitive, US dialectal) To acknowledge, recognize as.
  Quotations
  The next morning, Sunday, I was boxing with R., who had come over with three or four others to swap a few with me. I was given up to be the best boxer around, and I laid them cold as fast as they came at me.
  1969, God Struck Me Dead; Religious Conversion Experiences and Autobiographies of Ex-Slaves, Philadelphia, P.A., Boston, M.A.: Pilgrim Press, page 45
adjective
comparative more give up, superlative most give up
1. (US dialectal) Become fully taken over by a certain quality, activity, trait, etc.
  Quotations
  And now She Seems give up to Sin / Too much neglecting grace within
  c. 1808, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise‎

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