Give up

1- Give up :  Surrender, stop trying

• Intransitive

        2- Give up : Stop doing something that has been a habit

• Separable (optional)

• Examples in context:

1.-  She would call him to dinner from his bedroom, which she had given up trying to make him clean, but he wouldn't respond.

2.-  Ministerial supporters of a complete ban believe that forbidding smoking in the workplace would help addicts to give up their habit.

2.-  Patients will have to try to give up the habit if they want to get treatment, such as knee replacement.
2.- The health secretary said the aim was to raise consciousness, help smokers to give up tobacco and reduce smoking-related illnesses.
2.-  The students compared the experience to going on a diet or giving up smoking radically.
2.-  When did he promise to give up smoking?

1- Darse por vencido, rendirse
2- Dejar de hacer de algo, dejar (bebida, tabaco, etc)


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