Check
Give up
Give up verb - To give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress.
Check and give up are semantically related in do without topic. Sometimes you can use "Check" instead a verb "Give up".
Both terms in one sentence
-
The detective fails spectacularly to help, then decides to give up, and pulls a watch out of his coat to check the time.
Source: Wham Shot - Sure, there's a guard who comes along to check it, but if you refuse to give up all your gold or keep saying you're Croesus, you're stuck inside until you starve to death.
Source: Video Game / NetHack -
Idiot Ball: Princess Toadstool picks it up in "Never Koop A Koopa." When King Koopa pretends to give up and hands her the key to Castle Koopa, she decides that she'll turn the castle into a retirement home for elderly mushrooms and runs off to check it out.
Cite this Source
Give up and Check. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/check/give_up
Check & Give up. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/check/give_up>.
Give up or Check. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/check/give_up.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "check" and "give up" have occurred on timeline