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give over

verb

  1. tr to transfer, esp to the care or custody of another
  2. tr to assign or resign to a specific purpose or function

    the day was given over to pleasure

  3. informal.
    to cease (an activity)

    give over fighting, will you!

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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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.

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You can’t totally give over because you know that there’s something has to be scratched that is unknown.

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But Trump did not peacefully give over anything.

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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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