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given up

adjective as in discontinued

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adjective as in sacrificed

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Right, that toughness was always inside her, like the way she had given up crying.

I could have given up on this thing,” he says, “a long time ago.

“We got here hours ago,” says a man with a foot brace who's given up his spot in the amorphous line to sit on a folding chair.

Lee would say, 'Well, the Little Genius has given up again.'

I've given up long home runs that I turned around and admired like a fan.

Before this patent was granted he had, however, given up the use of weights altogether and relied entirely upon springs.

It signified that he had definitely given up pretending that he had the power of shaking off the obsession.

This is spoken by the prophet in the person of the Jews at the time when, for their sins, they were given up to their enemies.

After the gentle sex had to a great extent given up the habit, some strong minded females were to be found who retained it.

Yet some little cell of innermost memory, stirring out of sleep, had surely given up its dead.

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

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