# give up

Pronunciation: say "giv-UP" /ˌɡɪv ˈʌp/

## Phrasal verb

1. To stop doing something, such as an activity, a habit, or an effort.
   - Simple: To stop doing something, like a habit or an activity.
   - _After three failed attempts, the climbers gave up their bid for the summit._
   - _Many adults give up trying to learn a language after the first few months._
2. To admit defeat and stop trying or resisting.
   - Simple: To stop trying because you accept that you cannot win.
   - _Okay, I give up. What's the answer?_
   - _The rebels finally gave up after a long siege and laid down their weapons._
3. To hand over or let go of something you have.
   - Simple: To let someone else have something that was yours.
   - _The senator agreed to give up her committee seat after the scandal._
   - _To keep the peace, the duke gave up his claim to the northern estates._
4. To lose hope for someone or something, often treating them as dead or lost.
   - Simple: To stop hoping that someone or something will be found or saved.
   - _Rescuers refused to give up the trapped miners for dead and kept digging through the night._
   - _The sailor, long given up for dead, walked into his hometown one winter morning._
5. To abandon someone or something, such as a belief, a plan, or a person you once stood by.
   - Simple: To leave a person, or to stop holding on to a belief or plan.
   - _The architects gave up the curved design in favor of a cheaper boxy one._
   - _Few people give up the faith they were raised in without a struggle._
6. To let an opponent or another person gain something at your expense, such as runs in a game or useful information.
   - Simple: To let someone get something that hurts you, like points in a game.
   - _The starter gave up two home runs in the third inning and was pulled from the game._
   - _The defense can't afford to give up another easy basket before halftime._
7. To hand over someone or something, or to betray someone by informing on them.
   - Simple: To hand someone or something over, often to the police, or to tell on someone.
   - _Facing a long prison term, the driver gave up the names of everyone in the smuggling ring._
   - _The villagers refused to give up the fugitive to the soldiers._
8. To reveal something, telling what you know. *(slang, US)*
   - Simple: To tell or let out something you know.
   - _My little brother won't give up where he hid the remote._
   - _Under pressure, the kid gave up that he'd been the one leaving the gate open._
10. In finance, to carry out a trade on behalf of another broker.
   - Simple: In finance, to make a trade for another broker.
   - _The executing broker will give up the trade to the fund's clearing firm at the end of the day._
   - _Under the agreement, the floor broker gave up each order to the client's prime broker._
11. To acknowledge or recognize someone as being something. *(dialectal, US)*
   - Simple: To agree that someone is something, such as the best at a skill.

## Noun · give-up

Pronunciation: say "GIV-up" /ˈɡɪv ʌp/

9. The act of giving up, or a relinquishment of something held. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: The act of quitting, or of letting go of something you have.
   - _There's no give-up in this team. They keep fighting until the final whistle._
   - _The new contract asks for give-ups on overtime pay and vacation days._

## Adjective

12. Wholly given over to a particular quality, activity, or trait. *(dialectal, US)*
   - Simple: Completely taken over by a habit, a feeling, or a way of acting.

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