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Give_up vs Forbear - What's the difference?

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Give_up is a related term of forbear.


In lang=en terms the difference between give_up and forbear

is that give_up is to admit defeat, to capitulate while forbear is to control oneself when provoked.

As verbs the difference between give_up and forbear

is that give_up is to surrender (someone or something) while forbear is to keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up.

As a noun forbear is

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give_up

English

Verb

  • To surrender (someone or something).
    • He was surrounded, so gave''' himself '''up .
    They gave''' him '''up to the police.
  • To stop or quit (an activity, etc).
    • They gave up the search when it got dark.
  • To relinquish (something).
    • He gave up his seat to an old man.
  • * 1816 , (Jane Austen), , Volume 1, Chapter 7:
    • "Dear Miss Woodhouse, I would not give up the pleasure and honour of being intimate with you for any thing in the world."
  • To lose hope concerning (someone or something).
    • They gave him up for dead.
  • To abandon (someone or something).
    • I gave up my faith years ago.
  • To admit defeat, to capitulate.
    • OK, I give up , you win.

    Synonyms

    * surrender, yield * blin, cease, discontinue * forlend, surrender, yield * * desert, forlet, forsake * capitulate, surrender, wave the white flag

    Anagrams

    * English phrasal verbs

    forbear

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) forberen, from (etyl) . (got)

    Verb

  • To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up.
  • To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
  • * Bible, 1 Kings xxii. 6
    • Shall I go to battle, or shall I forbear ?
  • To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
  • * Bible, Ezekiel ii. 7
    • Thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear .
  • To control oneself when provoked.
  • * Cowper
    • The kindest and the happiest pair / Will find occasion to forbear .
  • * Old proverb
    • Both bear and forbear .
    Related terms
    * forbearance * forbearant

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * [1906] 2004, Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville, Ethel Wedgwood tr.
    • Sirs, I am quite sure that the King of England's forbears rightly and justly lost the conquered lands that I hold [...]
  • * [1936] 2004, Raymond William Firth, We the Tikopia [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=Eiji-EnuhXUC&pg=PA345&lpg=PA345&sig=aB2VV0fcWv6lkQPQatQQbDhlm_8]
    • One does not take one’s family name therefrom, and again the position of the mother in that group is determined through her father and his male forbears in turn; this too is a patrilineal group.
  • * 1997, H. L. Hix, Understanding W. S. Merwin [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=8JIveUt8StQC&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&sig=_AETFoZUYlti38_Va0zOHD4yZTk]
    • Beginning with the bald declaration “I think I was cold in the womb,” the speaker in “The Forbears'” then decides that his brother (who died soon after birth) must also have been cold in the womb, like his grandfather John and the ' forbears who antedated John:
    English heteronyms