give sb up betydelse and definition

Betydelse av give sb up på svenska

• 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.