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Definition of give up on phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

give up on

phrasal verb
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give up on somebody
  1. to stop hoping or believing that somebody will change, get better, etc.
    • His teachers seem to have given up on him.
  2. (also give somebody up)
     to believe that somebody is never going to arrive, get better, be found, etc.
See give up on in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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