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1 give up
1) (to stop, abandon: I must give up smoking; They gave up the search.) opustiti2) (to stop using etc: You'll have to give up cigarettes; I won't give up all my hobbies for you.) odreči se3) (to hand over (eg oneself or something that one has) to someone else.) predati (se)4) (to devote (time etc) to doing something: He gave up all his time to gardening.) posvetiti5) ((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).) imeti za* * *transitive verb & intransitive verb opustiti, odreči se; prenehati
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Abandon — A*ban don ([.a]*b[a^]n d[u^]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abandoned} ( d[u^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Abandoning}.] [OF. abandoner, F. abandonner; a (L. ad) + bandon permission, authority, LL. bandum, bannum, public proclamation, interdiction, bannire to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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abandon — I UK [əˈbændən] / US verb [transitive] Word forms abandon : present tense I/you/we/they abandon he/she/it abandons present participle abandoning past tense abandoned past participle abandoned ** 1) a) to leave someone when you should stay with… … English dictionary
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