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What does gave up mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense of give up
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She gave up acting for a year at the very point when she was on the brink of bigger things, in the wake of Almost Famous.
Manager Don Givens waited up until 4am for the player to return to HQ, at which point he gave up and went to bed.
He worked eight innings and gave up five runs on nine hits while recording nine strikeouts and four walks.
He gave up home runs to Dunn and Joe Randa, who hit a walk-off in his first game as a Red.
I had no trouble stopping taking weed and after one farewell joint, gave up.
I had tried a number of times to get back into writing shortly after the funeral, but I soon gave up.

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