He was surrounded, so gave himself up.
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Give up
Synonyms for "give up" (204 found)
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Closest matches (41)
Strong matches (61)
Related words (102)
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Verb(17 words)
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More general
39 entriesShowing 16 of 39 words.
More specific
9 entriesabandonmentabandonment of taskscessation of effortcessionconfessiondisclosuredropouthandoverrevelation
Collocations
12 entriesInflections
5 entriesDerivations
2 entriesgive-upgiving up
similar
10 entriesTranslations
60 translations across 38 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- اِسْتَسْلَمَ verb (surrender)
- تَخَلَّى verb (surrender)
- تَنَازَلَ verb (surrender)
Armenian
1 entries- հանձնվել verb (surrender)
Belarusian
2 entries- зда́цца verb (surrender)
- здава́цца verb (surrender)
Bulgarian
1 entries- предавам се verb (surrender)
Catalan
1 entries- rendir-se verb (surrender)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎠᏓᏲᏍᎦ verb (surrender)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 投案 verb (surrender)
- 投降 verb (surrender)
- 自首 verb (surrender)
Czech
2 entries- vydat verb (surrender)
- vzdát se verb (surrender)
Danish
2 entries- give op verb (surrender)
- opgive verb (surrender)
Dutch
1 entries- zich overgeven verb (surrender)
Esperanto
1 entries- kapitulaci verb (surrender)
Finnish
2 entries- antautua verb (surrender)
- luovuttaa verb (surrender)
French
1 entries- se rendre verb (surrender)
Galician
1 entries- renderse verb (surrender)
Georgian
3 entries- ბარდება verb (surrender)
- ნებდება verb (surrender)
- ჩაბარდება verb (surrender)
German
3 entries- aufgeben verb (surrender)
- kapitulieren verb (surrender)
- sich ergeben verb (surrender)
Hungarian
1 entries- felad verb (surrender)
Icelandic
1 entries- gefast upp verb (surrender)
Indonesian
1 entries- menyerah verb (surrender)
Ingrian
1 entries- antiissa verb (surrender)
Irish
1 entries- tabhair suas verb (surrender)
Italian
1 entries- arrendersi verb (surrender)
Japanese
1 entries- 降服する verb (surrender)
Khmer
1 entries- ចុះចាញ់ verb (surrender)
Korean
1 entries- 항복하다 verb (surrender)
Latin
2 entries- dēdō verb (surrender)
- exhibeo verb (surrender)
Old Saxon
1 entries- afgevan verb (surrender)
Polish
1 entries- poddawać się impf poddać się verb (surrender)
Portuguese
1 entries- render-se verb (surrender)
Romanian
2 entries- renunța verb (surrender)
- se da bătut verb (surrender)
Russian
4 entries- вы́дать verb (surrender)
- выдава́ть verb (surrender)
- сда́ться verb (surrender)
- сдава́ть verb (surrender)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- gèill verb (surrender)
- thoir suas verb (surrender)
Slovak
1 entries- vydať verb (surrender)
Spanish
2 entries- entregar verb (surrender)
- rendirse verb (surrender)
Swedish
1 entries- ge upp verb (surrender)
Thai
1 entries- ยอมแพ้ verb (surrender)
Ukrainian
2 entries- зда́тися verb (surrender)
- здава́тися verb (surrender)
Vietnamese
1 entries- đầu hàng verb (surrender)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
They gave him up to the police.
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He gave up his seat to an old man.
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The king gave up land in exchange for peace.
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Showing 4 of 22 available sentences.