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gives up
verb as in admit defeat
Weak matches
- abandon
- back down
- bail out
- bow out
- buckle under
- capitulate
- cave in
- cease
- cede
- chicken out
- collapse
- comply
- concede
- cry uncle
- cut out
- desist
- despair
- drop
- drop like a hot potato
- fold
- forswear
- hand over
- leave off
- pull out
- quit
- relinquish
- resign
- stop
- submit
- surrender
- take the oath
- throw in the towel
- waive
- walk out on
- wash one's hands of
- yield
Example Sentences
He holds up his right hand—“A short chop right above the bridge of the nose”—and gives up a laugh.
And like the Army he loves, like the America he serves, Sergeant First Class Cory Remsburg never gives up, and he does not quit.
Benjamin Netanyahu and his fellow hawks want more sanctions on Iran until it gives up all enriched uranium—an impossible demand.
Everyone gives up on childhood innocence at some point, but how often does it happen to an entire generation almost overnight?
And with that, Walt gives up, placing a traceable call to the Albuquerque DEA.
In the lungs hemoglobin forms a loose combination with oxygen, which it readily gives up when it reaches the tissues.
"Unless Mrs. Fletcher gives up her seat," said Jessie demurely.
The organs of respiration: the organs in which the blood receives oxygen and gives up carbon dioxide.
In glands, it gives up materials used by the gland cells in their manufacture of secretions.
In the muscles and other working tissues the blood gives up food and oxygen, receiving carbon dioxide and organic waste in return.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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