TO GIVE UP

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TO GIVE UP - [verb] to stop doing something; to realise that you cannot do something and so stop trying to do it

My New Year's resolution was to give up smoking and start living a healthier life.

I tried so hard to discourage her from marrying him, but she was so stubborn that I finally gave up.

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