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Abandon ship!

There are days where I feel like my brain wants to abandon me.

negotiations were abandoned and fighting intensified

I was drinking with total abandon and blacked out. I have no idea what I was doing.

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.

Now that pessimism prevails, the executive will abandon the project.

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it.

While welcoming the firming up of the present government policy to abandon the proposal of the reform bill to the Diet, at the same time some are worried that Prime Minister Koizumi won't clearly state the bill's withdrawal.

to leave someone when you should stay with them and look after them His mother abandoned him when he was five days old.

With her parents out of town, Kelly danced all night with abandon.

The Battersea Dogs' Home looks after pets which have been abandoned.

They have to abandon their homeland in order to survive. I trust that at this time we cannot and must not abandon this aspiration.

He abandoned his wife and children. / She abandoned the bad habit of smoking. / I don't understand people who abandon animals./ She abandoned dancing when she became a mother

We were sinking fast, and the captain gave the order to abandon ship. If disturbed, the bird may abandon the nest, leaving the chicks to die.

Shortly after coming back to France, he decided to abandon his career as an economist in order to dedicate himself to his true passion: writing, in Spain.

Don't give up!

I give up. What’s the answer?

Some people never give up. They fight till the end.

Never give up! / Natalie has given up the idea of becoming a super star. / Rodney, you can't give up. / I gave up taking sugar in tea and coffee to lose weight. / Sarah gave up smoking five years ago.

Darren has decided to give up football at the end of this season.

We give up two to three hours of our time and we don't get paid.

I give up, I can't do this

The song "Don't give up" is the best song ever for me.

I worked too much on this project to give up now. I always tell my daughter to never give up on her dreams.

I give up, I can't do this. / She gave up her English lessons after the first semester.

You'll never guess the answer - do you give up?

She gave up her English lessons after the first semester. We should not give up trying. After the accident, he gave up work.

A child is ulikely to sacrifice (give up) anything for a friend.

stop doing sth/Never give up learning English!

What might you give up when you go on a diet?