英语词汇“give up”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	give up
释义	give up verb Etymology: Middle English given up, from given to give + up *transitive verb* 1. : to hand over to or as if to another : relinquish, surrender < the death of his wife a few years later caused him to give up his … home — J.M.Phalen > < things went from bad to worse until finally he had to give up his position — Scott Fitzgerald > 2. : to breathe forth : emit — now used especially in the phrase give up the ghost 3. obsolete : to deliver verbally : present < how he may be brought to give up the clearest evidence — Francis Atterbury > 4. : to have done with : desist from : forsake, sacrifice < men will never give up seeking to influence one another — R.M.Weaver > < you wouldn't give up science or your career — Susan Ertz > < gave the idea up in sheer weariness — T.B.Costain > 5. a. : to yield (oneself) to a particular feeling, influence, or activity : abandon < gave himself up completely to despair > < shutting himself away from the world and giving himself up to writing his novel — Edmund Wilson > b. : to set apart or devote to a particular purpose or use — usually used in passive < Mondays and Tuesdays were often given up to drink, cockfights, bearbaiting — J.H.Plumb > 6. : to declare incurable or insoluble < the patient was given up by the doctors > < couldn't answer the riddle and so gave it up > 7. a. : to make public : reveal < we do not give up the names of our contributors — Lippincott's Magazine > b. : to make known (the name of a principal) in the process of completing a transaction on a stock exchange 8. : to despair of seeing < it's so late we gave you up — Charles Dickens > *intransitive verb* : to withdraw from an activity or course of action often as an admission of failure : stop < had lost flies and broken leaders until he had given up — Alexander MacDonald > < doctor tried to get your father to give up for a while — Ellen Glasgow >
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