单词 | to give up for lost |
释义 | > as lemmasto give up for (lost) 8. (a) To pronounce (a person) incurable, (a puzzle) insoluble as far as concerns the speaker. (Cf. to give over at Phrasal verbs 1) (b) To renounce the hope of seeing. (c) to give up for (lost), etc.: see for prep. 19b. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > heal or cure [verb (transitive)] > pronounce incurable to give over1530 to give up1589 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 233 The Phisitions had all giuen him vp. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge viii. 277 It's so late, we gave you up. 1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows III. i. 226 Conundrums..invented and answered, or ‘given up’. 1861 Temple Bar 1 564 ‘When's a man not a man?’..‘Give it up.’ 1883 M. E. Mann Parish of Hilby iv. 49 I wonder you troubled to come at all; we gave you up long ago. 1884 Brit. Q. Rev. Apr. 458 He suffered from hip-disease, and was, in fact, given up by Sir B. Brodie. 1890 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Mar. 385 He..had given himself up for lost. 1890 Cornhill Mag. May 469 [Their] breadwinner is at sea, ‘given up’ at Lloyd's. to give (over or up) for lost to give (over or up) for lost, also to give lost: see give v. 31b.extracted from lostadj.< as lemmas |
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