GIVEN OVER Synonyms: 138 Similar and Opposite Words

given over

verb

past participle of give over

as in stopped

to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end his wife suggested that he give over working such long hours if it was making him so unhappy

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as in handed

to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another gave over his entire savings to an investor

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Recent Examples of given over However, neither design took well to electrical amplification, and, by the nineteen-forties, production lines had been given over to the guitar. —

Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026 Listen, the Department of Defense has been given over a trillion dollars within the last year. —

ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026 Most of the cover is given over to a steely portrait of Skeets’s uncle Benson James, who was photographed by Richard Avedon for his series In the American West in 1979, then stabbed to death a year later. —

Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026 More than three-quarters of street space — most of our public space — is given over to driving and parking cars, local fights over new bike lanes notwithstanding. —

Jon Orcutt, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2026 In their joint presentation, Recalde said her college has given over 3,600 students credit for work or other prior learning experiences. —

Calmatters, Daily News, 6 Feb. 2026 Minnelli has also given over her voice to ElevenLabs’ Iconic Voice Marketplace, a platform where users can request access to celebrity voices to create editorial and commercial content. —

Jake Kanter, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2026 The approach involves a series of three shots given over roughly 60 days, with the allergen injected directly into a lymph node (rather than into the arm) using imaging guidance, as NBC5 reported in 2021. —

Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 2026 Victims emerge and disappear, without much time given over to individuating them. —

Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2025

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To encompass the story, about a miracle from 847, when Pope Leo IV stopped a fire with a blessing, Raphael brings you into the fresco through the unshod feet of a woman in agony and leaves you near the very back, with a tiny and serene Leo IV.

— Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
If the game stopped at this point, Fermat’s method for dividing the pot would list all possible outcomes of those five coin flips and then tally the ones that amassed 10 points for each player.

— Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2026