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View definitions for give over

give over

verb as in forfeit

verb as in knock off

verb as in leave

verb as in leave off

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Example Sentences

But Trump did not peacefully give over anything.

When Adams finally produced his personal phone the next day, it was locked with a new six-digit passcode that the mayor refused to give over to the feds, claiming that he could not remember it.

From Slate

“It was complicated, I won’t lie. You really have to give over and say, ‘We’re going to treat your brand with a lot of respect,’” he says about Paramount.

Fathers are not legally obligated to so much as hold or even meet their own babies, let alone risk their lives or give over their organs and bodily functions to them for 10 months.

From Slate

“Personal observation has convinced me that in the power arena of politics/economics and in their logical consequence, war, people tend to give over every decision making capacity to any leader who can wrap himself in the myth fabric of the society,” Herbert wrote.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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