To give up, renounce. To give up, part with, surrender (esp. something dear or valued). Passing into sense 4.

To leave, go away from (a person or place), forsake; to abandon (possessions).

transitive. With adverbs, as back, down, forth, up, etc. Also with to or recipient as indirect object. Also †to reach up: to surrender (obsolete).

transitive. To give up, give back; to render, surrender. Obsolete.

with up; rarely with over.

To deliver up, to surrender. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To yield or deliver up; to resign.

To hand over, give up, relinquish possession of, surrender, resign. archaic or poetic. in material sense, esp. of surrendering a military position…

transitive. To give up (also over) possession of (a person or thing); to surrender (a castle, town, hostage, etc.). Also formerly: †spec. to hand…

to yield to, cede, give up.

transitive. To give (something) in addition. Obsolete. rare.

To yield, give up. Also with over. Obsolete.

To give up, part with or from, lose. Obsolete.

transitive. To surrender, give or hand over: = deliver, v.1 II.

To abstain from, go without, deny to oneself; to let go or pass, omit to take or use; to give up, part with, relinquish, renounce, resign.

transitive. To give up, resign, abandon.

transitive. To commit, submit, hand over, leave, resign, or yield (frequently to or unto a person, authority, etc.). Now archaic and rare.

transitive. To abandon, relinquish, or renounce; to give up the use, possession, or benefit of.

transitive. To give up or relinquish (something owned or in one's control). Also: to surrender (one's life, soul, etc.). Frequently with up.

transitive. To give up, resign, surrender (a possession, right, etc.). Also with to.

transitive. To sacrifice, surrender, or put at risk, esp. in order to achieve something. Now rare.

To let alone, resign, give up (quot. 1529 to hold on 1 at phrasal verbs); to keep back, withhold; in Cards, to keep in one's hand, refrain from…

transitive. To put within the ‘liberty’ or absolute control of; to give up entirely.

More widely: To give up, resign, abandon, relinquish possession of, esp. in favour of or for the sake of another.

transitive. To cede, give up, surrender.

To yield. transitive. To relinquish, abandon, give up (something, esp. a resolution, course of action, etc.).

To ‘throw up’; give up, abandon. Obsolete.

transitive and intransitive = resign, v.1 (in various senses).

transitive.

To put away, part with, let go. Obsolete.

Law. transitive. To repudiate a connection with or interest in; to renounce or deny a legal claim to (a right, an office, an estate, etc.). Also in…

Used in many phrases and idiomatic expressions merely as a variant (more emphatic or expressive of greater violence) of throw or cast (see esp. cast…

To forsake, abandon, relinquish, desist from, relinquish the prospect of; to cease to have to do with (a person); to sacrifice, ‘lay down’ (one's…

transitive. To give up, cancel, renounce; = quit, v. 10. rare.

To throw down, give up or surrender (a purse). rare.

To hand over as a fief; to surrender, give up entirely. figurative.

transitive. To yield, give up (one's life). Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To relinquish; to cease, leave off. Sometimes with infinitive as object. Obsolete.

transitive. To cease to own, to relinquish one's possession of; to give up, part with, renounce.

transitive. To abandon, give up. Obsolete.

transitive. More generally: to cast off, discard, or dismiss; to relinquish.

transitive. To relinquish (a person or thing); to give up, renounce, abandon.

transitive. To give up or surrender (something) in exchange for something of lesser value; to part with (a future benefit or advantage) for some…

transitive. To relinquish, surrender, or transfer away (a right, etc.); to convey (property, possessions, etc.) to another person. Obsolete.

transitive. With to. To give over, resign, consign. Obsolete.

To fit in tightly, jamb in, ram in.

transitive. colloquial and regional. To put in a bad state or situation; to ruin, spoil, mess up. Cf. jacked-up, adj. 1.

In colloquial use with adverbs away, down, over, up, etc. chuck up (the sponge), said of a second in a prize-fight; hence, to give in, give up…

colloquial. Without adverb, = to chuck out at sense 2b or up. In passive, to be acquitted or released. Also, to chuck it (see sense 2b).

To give up possession of.

In various colloquial or slang uses. To give up, abandon; also to sling inor up.

transitive. British colloquial and regional. To leave, abandon (a person); (more usually) to give up, stop doing (something). Chiefly in to jack it in…

North American colloquial. intransitive. To give up, back out; to defer or avoid taking action or responsibility, to ‘pass the buck’.

to relinquish, to abandon.