Cast_off vs Give_up - What's the difference?
cast_off | give_up | Related terms |
To discard or reject something.
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(ambitransitive, nautical) To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf etc) so that the vessel may make way.
(knitting) To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle.
To surrender (someone or something).
To stop or quit (an activity, etc).
To relinquish (something).
* 1816 , (Jane Austen), , Volume 1, Chapter 7:
To lose hope concerning (someone or something).
To abandon (someone or something).
To admit defeat, to capitulate.
Cast_off is a related term of give_up.
In lang=en terms the difference between cast_off and give_up
is that cast_off is to discard or reject something while give_up is to admit defeat, to capitulate.As verbs the difference between cast_off and give_up
is that cast_off is to discard or reject something while give_up is to surrender (someone or something).cast_off
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* cast on * castoff English phrasal verbsgive_up
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- He was surrounded, so gave''' himself '''up .
- They gave''' him '''up to the police.
- They gave up the search when it got dark.
- He gave up his seat to an old man.
- "Dear Miss Woodhouse, I would not give up the pleasure and honour of being intimate with you for any thing in the world."
- They gave him up for dead.
- I gave up my faith years ago.
- OK, I give up , you win.
