0 to stop having a friendship with someone:
She seems to have given up all her old friends.
1 to stop expecting that someone will arrive:
I've been waiting half an hour - I'd almost given up on you.
2 to think that someone is certain to die or to be dead:
The doctors had virtually given her up for dead, but she eventually recovered.
After a three-day search on the mountain, they gave him up for dead.
NIEUWE WOORDEN
European
May 10, 2021
WOORD VAN DE DAG
Shimmer
give sb up