give over
UK old-fashioned informal— phrasal verb with give uk
/ɡɪv/ us
/ɡɪv/ verb gave, given
› 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.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- cure
- knock off (sth)
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- lid
- lift
- raise
- suppression
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
