To give up Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions
  1. . (a) To abandon; to surrender. "Don't give up the ship."
    He has . . . given up For certain drops of salt, your city Rome. Shak.
    (b) To make public; to reveal.
    I'll not state them By giving up their characters. Beau. & Fl.
    (c) (Used also reflexively. )
Definitions
  1. to cease from effort; to yield; to despair; as, he would never give up.

Webster 1913