| 释义 |
give someone up for lostStop expecting that a missing person will be found alive: their comrades had given them up for lost...- He had searched for her, but eventually had to give her up for lost.
- If a warrior didn't return for a very, very long time, about ten years, then the family would mourn and give them up for lost.
- Now, it seems to me that anyone in the USA writing as late as October, ought to be well aware that Amelia Earhart had been given up for lost long before.
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