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give over
verb
- tr to transfer, esp to the care or custody of another
- tr to assign or resign to a specific purpose or function
the day was given over to pleasure
- informal.to cease (an activity)
give over fighting, will you!
Example Sentences
And, of course, Donald Trump loves the idea of creating cities that exist outside of federal authority, putting out a video in 2023 promising to give over federal lands to oligarchs to begin their mini-dictatorships.
His plan — which Starr notes “might have been a cover for a London company anxious to acquire land” — was for Mexico to give over as much as 20,000 square miles of land in Mexican California to settle about 15,000 Irish Catholic families.
You can’t totally give over because you know that there’s something has to be scratched that is unknown.
But Trump did not peacefully give over anything.
When Adams finally produced his personal phone the next day, it was locked with a new six-digit passcode that the mayor refused to give over to the feds, claiming that he could not remember it.
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