gave up
Waved white flag
Gave up is the past tense of give up, meaning to stop trying or surrender: She gave up after her third attempt.
It can mean to quit a habit: He gave up smoking last year.
To give someone up is to hand them over to authorities or abandon hope for them: The doctors gave him up for dead.
- surrenderedCeased resistance formally
- quitCease doing something
- ceasedCame to an end
- resignedYielded to circumstances
- cededFormally gave up rights
called it quits · relinquished · forsook · abandoned · walked away · yielded · waived · folded · threw in the towel · let go · despaired · dropped · succumbed · capitulated · renounced · retreated · conceded · forfeited
- surrenderedsurrendered, capitulated, yielded, conceded, submitted
- regretswhat if, hindsight, second thoughts, wrong choice, squandered
- abandonmentabandon, abandoned, forsake, desert, leave
- Game Outcomessolved, unsolved, win, loss, completion
- malfunction termsbroke, crashed, failed, froze, glitched
persistence and effort
gave uppersevered
Continued despite difficulty
persisted · kept going · never gave up · continued · carried on
give, up, given, giving, forgive, give up, forgiveness, giver, gave