Usually means: Cease, relinquish, or stop doing.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. give over: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. give over: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. give over: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Give over, give over: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. give over: Wiktionary
  6. give over: Dictionary.com
  7. give over: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. give over: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. give over: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. give over: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. Give Over: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (give over)

verb:  (transitive, now rare) To give up, hand over, surrender (something).
verb:  (transitive) To entrust (something) to another.
verb:  (transitive) To devote or resign to a particular purpose or activity; to yield completely.
verb:  (transitive) To quit, to abandon.
verb:  (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland, intransitive) To give up; abandon; stop.

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