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What does given up mean?

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  1. past participle of give up
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After 11 days trapped down a rabbit hole, the dog had been given up for dead.
However even he had given up hope after Ferguson had rebuffed his many attempts at getting him to postpone his retirement.
The five-year scheme to build homes on land given up by the national park would accommodate key workers identified by Craven District Council.
You can quibble about the balance between kawanatanga and te tino rangitiratanga, but something was very definitely being given up.
Two years later, in 1967, Sargent retired from her Readership and, unlike many mathematicians, seems to have given up research at this time.
Now the ACTU and the majority of union leaderships have given up any idea of tackling the Howard government's anti-union laws.

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