give over
UK old-fashioned informal — phrasal verb with give /ɡɪv/ verb (gave, given)Definition
› to stop doing something, usually something annoying: Oh (do) give over (= stop complaining), it's not my fault! [+ -ing verb] It's time you gave over pretending you're still a teenager.Causing something to endComing to an end
(Definition of give over from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- -stopper suffix
- abandon verb (STOP)
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- break away phrasal verb (NOT AGREE)
- conclude verb (FINISH)
- freeze noun (STOP)
- jack sth in phrasal verb
- kill sth stone-dead idiom
- knock off (sth) phrasal verb
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- scrap verb (THROW AWAY)
- squash verb (END)
- stamp sth out phrasal verb
- stanch verb
- staunch verb
- stem verb
- strangle sth at birth idiom
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