give up on

give up on somebody/something

to stop expecting anything from someone or something Some officials seem to have given up on our public schools. Lee was about to give up on ever getting to that party. Cook's supporters gave up on him a week before the election.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Anelie	-	German
Stark	[sta:k]
Amram	AM-ram (English), ahm-RAHM (Hebrew)	Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Hebrew
Achab	-	Biblical Latin
Dorothea	do-ro-TE-ah (German), dawr-ə-THEE-ə (English)	German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, English, Late Greek
OtÁVio	-	Portuguese (Brazilian)