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What does given up mean?

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Verb
  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.
When she had turned fifteen, she had given up trying to win her father's love and attention.
I made the mistake of thinking that they had given up and commandeered my favorite inflatable raft to float me around the pool.
Two years later, in 1967, Sargent retired from her Readership and, unlike many mathematicians, seems to have given up research at this time.
Participants in the program will not be detained and will be given up to 90 days in which to put their affairs in order.
You can quibble about the balance between kawanatanga and te tino rangitiratanga, but something was very definitely being given up.

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