give over
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Meaning
(transitive, now rare) To give up, hand over, surrender (something).
(transitive) To entrust (something) to another.
She gave the deeds over to the solicitor.
(transitive) To devote or resign to a particular purpose or activity; to yield completely.
The factory has been entirely given over to aircraft manufacture.
He gave himself over to a monastic life.
(transitive) To quit, to abandon.
(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To give up; abandon; stop.
Give over with your nonsense, will you!
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You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.
I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart Tessa. I would give over my own life for either of yours.
Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be.
I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.
Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.
When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.