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1) to give up a throne, a high office, control or responsibility (abdicate)

2) to give up rights, land etc to another person or country (cede)

3) to give up one's time, energy etc to something (devote)

4) to give up doing or using (something bad) (forswear)

5) (a government, ruler etc) to give up power (overthrow)

6) to give up (an opinion, a belief) publicly; admit (a statement) was false (recant)

7) to give up (something) (relinquish)

8) to give up (a job, claim etc) (resign)

9) to go away; to go (to bed); (to cause a person) to give up work, a position etc (retire)

10) to give up (oneself, a ship, a town, etc) to the enemy, the police etc (surrender)

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abdicate

to give up a throne, a high office, control or responsibility

give up a right, position, or power

capitulate

to surrender (on stated conditions)

give in

cede

to give up rights, land etc to another person or country

abandon, surrender

comply

to act in agreement (with a request, command, wish etc)

abide by, follow agreement or instructions

concede

to admit (something) as true

acknowledge, give in

cut-out

an article etc cut out of a newspaper; a device that disconnects a circuit

excise, remove

desist

to stop

stop, refrain from

discard

to throw away, give up, (something useless or unwanted)

get rid of

discontinue

to put an end to, stop (something)

prevent activity from going on

eschew

to avoid (something)

have nothing to do with

extradite

to send a person (from the country where he or she is living) to the police in a country where he or she is said to have committed a crime

send to another place by force

foreswear

forswear

abandon, disavow

forsake

to abandon (a person, good behaviour etc)

abandon, turn one's back on

forswear

to give up doing or using (something bad)

abandon, disavow

lay-by

an area at the side of a road used for vehicles to park

stop doing

lose

to have (something) no longer because of accident, theft, carelessness etc

be deprived of; mislay

quit

free, clear; to go away from (something); to stop (doing something)

abandon, leave

quits

to be on even terms (by repaying a debt of money, punishment etc)

abandon, leave

relent

to become less severe or cruel (especially by agreeing to something after refusing)

die down; let up

render

to give (something); to present, send in, (an account for payment)

contribute

renounce

to declare formally that one will no longer have anything to do with (a person, belief etc)

abandon, reject

shelve

to set aside (a plan, problem) until later; (of land) to slope (down or up) gently

defer, postpone

starve

(to cause a person, animal) to suffer or die from hunger; to feel very hungry

hold back from doing

turn-over

to do business to the amount mentioned

give, transfer

vacate

to give up living in (a building etc); to stop occupying (a place)

leave empty

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