Synonyms for giving up
giv·ing up

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1. giving up, yielding, surrendernoun

   a verbal act of admitting defeat

   Synonyms:
   fall, capitulation, forsaking, yielding, concession, surrender, resignation, conceding

2. forsaking, giving upnoun

   the act of forsaking

   Synonyms:
   surrender, forsaking, abandonment, yielding, desertion

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1. • Relinquishment
   • Renunciation

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1. Djau Codjovi:

   My Croatian teammate Ivan Pešić was calling My Croatian teammate Ivan Pešić embassy, while we sat down and were just giving up, then My Croatian teammate Ivan Pešić called out to us --' come quick, come quick' -- so all the group we were together.... and the Prime Minister of Croatia, My Croatian teammate Ivan Pešić called the embassy in Kyiv and they contacted the border and then they let us through.

2. Glenn Daily:

   I'm really skeptical that giving up investment flexibility at a young age is smart, you really have to be well compensated for giving up flexibility.

3. Vidal Nuno:

   Giving up those home runs killed it a little bit, i was leaving the ball up, command was off a little bit. But otherwise, the changeup and off-speed were all working.

4. The Apple chief executive:

   We’ve worried for a number of years that people in many countries were giving up data probably without knowing fully what they were doing and that these detailed profiles that were being built of them, that one day something would occur and people would be incredibly offended by what had been done without them being aware of it, unfortunately that prediction has come true more than once.

5. Honduran Security Minister Julian Pacheco:

   No one can say Honduras is giving up on this struggle. We're almost alone as we fight it and we're doing so with our own resources, international aid is very important, but if there isn't aid we can't just lay down and cry.