| 单词 | to give up for | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto give up for (lost)  8.  		 (a) To pronounce (a person) incurable, (a puzzle) insoluble as far as concerns the speaker. (Cf. to give over at  Phrasal verbs 1)		 (b) To renounce the hope of seeing.		 (c)  to give up for (lost), etc.: see for prep. 19b. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > heal or cure			[verb (transitive)]		 > pronounce incurable to give over1530 to give up1589 1589    G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie  iii. xxiv. 233  				The Phisitions had all giuen him vp. 1841    C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge viii. 277  				It's so late, we gave you up. 1844    J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows III. i. 226  				Conundrums..invented and answered, or ‘given up’. 1861    Temple Bar 1 564  				‘When's a man not a man?’..‘Give it up.’ 1883    M. E. Mann Parish of Hilby iv. 49  				I wonder you troubled to come at all; we gave you up long ago. 1884    Brit. Q. Rev. Apr. 458  				He suffered from hip-disease, and was, in fact, given up by Sir B. Brodie. 1890    Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Mar. 385  				He..had given himself up for lost. 1890    Cornhill Mag. May 469  				[Their] breadwinner is at sea, ‘given up’ at Lloyd's. < as lemmas | 
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