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1 give up
give up rinunciare, arrendersiEx:to give up on — lasciar perdere [diet, crossword]; considerare irrecuperabile [ pupil]; dare per spacciato [ patient]; piantare [friend, partner]; give up [sth.], give [sth.] up/Ex:1) (renounce or sacrifice) abbandonare, perdere [vice, habit]; rinunciare a [title, claim]; sacrificare [ free time]; lasciare [ job]to give up smoking, drinking — smettere di fumare, di bere
3) (surrender) cedere [seat, territory]; restituire [passport, key]; give up [sb.], give [sb.] up4) (hand over) consegnareto give oneself up — arrendersi, consegnarsi
* * *1) (to stop, abandon: I must give up smoking; They gave up the search.) smettere, abbandonare2) (to stop using etc: You'll have to give up cigarettes; I won't give up all my hobbies for you.) rinunciare a3) (to hand over (eg oneself or something that one has) to someone else.) arrendersi; consegnare4) (to devote (time etc) to doing something: He gave up all his time to gardening.) dedicare5) ((often with as or for) to consider (a person, thing etc) to be: You took so long to arrive that we had almost given you up (for lost).) considerare come* * *1. vt + adv1) (surrender: place) cedere, (hand over: ticket) consegnareto give o.s. up — arrendersi
to give o.s. up to the police — costituirsi alla polizia
2) (renounce: friend, boyfriend, job) lasciare, (abandon: idea) rinunciare a, abbandonare, (abandon hope for: patient) dare per spacciato (-a), (expected visitor) non aspettare piùI gave it up as a bad job fam — ci ho rinunciato, ho abbandonato l'idea
to give up drinking/smoking — smettere di bere/fumare
3)(devote: one's life, time)
to give up (to) — dedicare (a)to give up (for) — (sacrifice: one's life, career) donare (per), dare (per)
2. vi + adv(stop trying) rinunciare, arrendersiI give up! — (trying to guess) mi arrendo!
I couldn't do it, so I gave up — non riuscivo a farlo, così ho lasciato perdere
* * *give up rinunciare, arrendersiEx:to give up on — lasciar perdere [diet, crossword]; considerare irrecuperabile [ pupil]; dare per spacciato [ patient]; piantare [friend, partner]; give up [sth.], give [sth.] up/Ex:1) (renounce or sacrifice) abbandonare, perdere [vice, habit]; rinunciare a [title, claim]; sacrificare [ free time]; lasciare [ job]to give up smoking, drinking — smettere di fumare, di bere
3) (surrender) cedere [seat, territory]; restituire [passport, key]; give up [sb.], give [sb.] up4) (hand over) consegnareto give oneself up — arrendersi, consegnarsi
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2 put aside
put aside [sth.], put [sth.] aside mettere da parte* * *( often with for) (to keep (something) for a particular person or occasion: Would you put this book aside for me and I'll collect it later; We have put aside the dress you ordered.) mettere da parte* * *vt + adv1) (lay down: book, game) mettere da una parte, posare3) (fig: abandon: idea, hope, doubt) mettere da parte, dimenticare* * *put aside [sth.], put [sth.] aside mettere da parte
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