Giving up
Giving up noun - A verbal act of admitting defeat.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- abandon and giving up
- abandon and sacrifice
- cede and giving up
- cede and sacrifice
- relinquish and giving up
- relinquish and sacrifice
- give up and giving up
- give up and sacrifice
- spare and giving up
- spare and sacrifice
- loss and giving up
- loss and sacrifice
- abandonment and giving up
- abandonment and sacrifice
Both terms in one sentence
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He (mostly) loses these tendencies towards the end, going through a Heroic Sacrifice and giving up his chance for a new life so that Kat can have her father back.
Source: Film / Casper -
Gokudo manages to avoid this with the help of Ikkyu, but eventually ends up as a sacrifice... by giving up his virgin first kiss to the sealed spirit of the Parmetian Empire, which was really Granny.
Source: Light Novel / Gokudo - It's a choice between making some poor young girl who got lost the sacrifice or willingly giving up some of your own youth and beauty.
Source: Karma Houdini / Video Games
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Sacrifice and Giving up. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/giving_up/sacrifice
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