Disavow vs Give_up - What's the difference?
disavow | give_up | Related terms |
To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown.
To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.
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.
Disavow is a related term of give_up.
As verbs the difference between disavow and give_up
is that disavow is to refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown while give_up is to surrender (someone or something).disavow
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Verb
(en verb)- He was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime.
- Because of her dissatisfaction, she now disavows the merits of fascism.
Quotations
* 1809 — *: These considerations not having restrained the British Government from disavowing the arrangement by virtue of which its orders in council were to be revoked, and the event authorizing the renewal of commercial intercourse having thus not taken place, it necessarily became a question of equal urgency and importance whether the act prohibiting that intercourse was not to be considered as remaining in legal force. * 1884 — *: In a still more obscure passage he now desires to disavow the Circular or aristocratic tendencies with which some critics have naturally credited him. * 1901 — , ch 12 *: It came to me as an absolute, for a moment an overwhelming shock. It seemed as though it wasn't a face, as though it must needs be a mask, a horror, a deformity, that would presently be disavowed or explained.Synonyms
* (to refuse to own) abjure, deny, disclaim, disown, reject * (to deny or show the contrary of) deny, disprove, impugn, reject, repudiateAntonyms
* (to refuse to own) accept, own up * (to deny or show the contrary of) accept, proveAnagrams
*give_up
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Verb
- 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.