Give_up vs Forego - What's the difference?
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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.
To precede, to go before.
* Wordsworth
; to abandon, to relinquish
* 1762 Waller, T. The White Witch of the Wood, or the Devil of Broxbon'', in ''The Beauties of all the Magazines Selected, for the Year 1762 , Vol. I (February), page 34:
Give_up is a related term of forego.
As verbs the difference between give_up and forego
is that give_up is to surrender (someone or something) while forego is to precede, to go before or forego can be ; to abandon, to relinquish.give_up
English
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.
Synonyms
* surrender, yield * blin, cease, discontinue * forlend, surrender, yield * * desert, forlet, forsake * capitulate, surrender, wave the white flagAnagrams
* English phrasal verbsforego
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Verb
- pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone
Usage notes
* The sense to precede'' is usually found in the form of the participles ''foregone'' (especially in the phrase "a foregone conclusion") and ''foregoing (usually used either attributively, as in "the foregoing discussion", or substantively, as in "subject to the foregoing").Etymology 2
See forgoVerb
- […] for on no other terms does she desire a reconciliation, but will sooner forego all the hopes to which her birth entitles her, and get her bread by service, than ever yield to become the wife of the ——.