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give over

verb as in forfeit

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There’s so much trauma and, “But what if I did just give over to something.”

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So there’s all of these reasons he can’t give over to anything.

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And, of course, Donald Trump loves the idea of creating cities that exist outside of federal authority, putting out a video in 2023 promising to give over federal lands to oligarchs to begin their mini-dictatorships.

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His plan — which Starr notes “might have been a cover for a London company anxious to acquire land” — was for Mexico to give over as much as 20,000 square miles of land in Mexican California to settle about 15,000 Irish Catholic families.

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You can’t totally give over because you know that there’s something has to be scratched that is unknown.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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