GIVE UP Synonyms: 125 Similar and Opposite Words

give up

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as in to relinquish

to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress was in so much debt he had to give up his house and move into a cheaper apartment

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as in to abandon

to stop doing (something) permanently I hope you won't give up playing the piano

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as in to succumb

to yield to the control or power of enemy forces with the prospect of a renewed enemy attack, the regiment decided to simply give up

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as in to surrender

to give (oneself) over to something especially unrestrainedly even in the darkest days of her troubled marriage, she refused to give herself up to feelings of utter hopelessness

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Recent Examples of give up There was a comeback in the works earlier in the session, but stocks gave up their gains after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Pentagon plans to send 3,000 soldiers from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East. —

Jeff Marks, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2026 America will never again give up the moon. —

William Harwood, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026 The Blackhawks have a -40 scoring differential, with 180 total goals scored and 220 given up. —

ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026 Brooklyn was even winning the possession game early, despite giving up 12 second-chance points. —

C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for give up

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The plan calls for Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza to relinquish their weapons, placing the responsibility of all arms in the hands of a new governing authority.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 20 Mar. 2026
Microsoft relinquished its right to be OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider, but retained a clause that requires all of OpenAI’s API calls, or calls to access its AI models, to be routed through Azure, the reporting noted.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 19 Mar. 2026