LEARNit Dictionary
give up
phrasal verb
1
to stop trying to do something
دست کشیدن, تسلیم شدن
2
to believe that somebody is never going to arrive, get better, be found, etc.
قطع امید کردن
There you are at last! We'd given you up.
We hadn't heard from him for so long, we'd
given him up for dead
.
3
to stop having a relationship with somebody
قطع رابطه کردن
Why don't you give him up?
4
A2
to stop doing or having something
دست کشیدن, رها کردن, ول کردن
She didn't give up work when she had the baby.
We'd
given up hope
of ever having children.
You ought to give up smoking.
5
to spend time on a task that you would normally spend on something else
اختصاص دادن, وقف کردن, وقت دادن
I gave up my weekend to help him paint his apartment.
6
to hand something over to somebody else
تحویل دادن, واگذار کردن
We had to give our passports up to the authorities.
He gave up his seat to a pregnant woman
.
7
to offer yourself/somebody to be captured by somebody in authority
تسلیم شدن
After a week on the run he gave himself up to the police.