• to despair, to forego, forewent, foregone, to forgo, forwent, forgone, to give up, to go without sg, to lay down, to pass up, to relinquish, to write off
• to give sg up as a bad job
• to forswear, -swore, -sworn, to forswear, forswore, forsworn
• abandonment, abdication, abnegation, cancellation, disclaimer, regrets, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, surrender, waiver, waiver of a right
• his life is despaired of
• the patient was given up