stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims
<verb.cognition> freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 5 freq. cnt.: 2
<verb.cognition> freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 5 freq. cnt.: 2
| abandon |
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| give up |
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sample sentences
"He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage""Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations"
verb frames
Somebody ----s somethingverb frames
Somebody ----s something
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
verb group
collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
give way, give, move over, ease up, yield
hyponym