Usually means: Cease trying or making effort.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word give up:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. give up: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. give up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. give-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. give up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. give up: Vocabulary.com
  6. give-up: Wordnik
  7. give (sth) up, give up, give up (sth): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. give up: Wiktionary
  9. give-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. give-up, give up: Dictionary.com
  11. Give Up (Miles Kane EP), Give Up (album), Give Up, Give Up, Give up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. give up: Rhymezone
  13. give up: Phrasal Verb Page
  14. give up: Free Dictionary
  15. give up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. give-up, give up: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Give Up, Give up: bizterms.net
  4. Give up: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. Give-up: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  6. Give Up: Investopedia
  7. Give Up (album), Give Up (disambiguation), give up: Legal dictionary
  8. Give Up (album), Give Up, give-up: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. give up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. give up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. give up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. give up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (give up)

verb:  (transitive) To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone).
verb:  (transitive) To relinquish (something)
verb:  (transitive) To have someone obtain (something) to one's disadvantage; to concede.
verb:  (transitive) To stop or quit (an activity, etc.)
verb:  (transitive) To abandon (someone or something)
verb:  (transitive) To lose hope concerning (someone or something)
verb:  (intransitive) To admit defeat, capitulate.
verb:  (transitive, finance) To execute a trade on behalf of another broker.
verb:  (intransitive, US dialectal) To acknowledge, recognize as.
verb:  (intransitive, US, slang) To reveal (something).
adjective:  (US dialectal) Become fully taken over by a certain quality, activity, trait, etc.

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