The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word CEDE which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2024.
Give up crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CEDE | 55 % | 4 |
| WAIVE | 9 % | 5 |
| THROWINTHETOWEL | 7 % | 15 |
| QUIT | 6 % | 4 |
| YIELD | 3 % | 5 |
| FORGO | 2 % | 5 |
| RENOUNCE | 2 % | 8 |
| CRYUNCLE | 1 % | 8 |
| SACRIFICE | 1 % | 9 |
| LETGOOF | 1 % | 7 |
| SAYUNCLE | 1 % | 8 |
| RAISEAWHITEFLAG | 1 % | 15 |
| VACATE | 1 % | 6 |
| CAVE | 1 % | 4 |
| PACKITIN | 1 % | 8 |
| DESPAIR | 1 % | 7 |
| PARTWITH | 1 % | 8 |
| SOUNDTHERETREAT | 1 % | 15 |
| CONCEDE | 1 % | 7 |
| SIGNAWAY | 1 % | 8 |
| HANDOVER | 1 % | 8 |
| SHED | 0 % | 4 |
| CALLITQUITS | 0 % | 11 |
| LOSE | 0 % | 4 |
| ABNEGATE | 0 % | 8 |
| FORSAKE | 0 % | 7 |
| KICK | 0 % | 4 |
| DIE | 0 % | 3 |
| ABANDON | 0 % | 7 |
| SAYDIE | 0 % | 6 |
| THROWINONESHAND | 0 % | 15 |
| CHUCKITIN | 0 % | 9 |
| DEMIT | 0 % | 5 |
| LOSEFAITH | 0 % | 9 |
| RATON | 0 % | 5 |
| LAYDOWNONESARMS | 0 % | 15 |
| FOREGO | 0 % | 6 |
| FORFEIT | 0 % | 7 |
Why may QUIT be the right solution?
"Give up" is a phrasal verb that means to quit or stop doing something. "Quit" is a synonym of "give up," making it the correct answer.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Give up
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- part with
- relinquish
- resign
- surrender
- quit
- waive
- leave
- abandon
- renounce
- cede
- vacate
- lay off
Crossword Answer definitions
CEDE verb- To give up; yield to another.
- To give way.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result CEDE
- Give up
- Sign over
- Give over
- Give up, as territory
- Relinquish
- Resign formally
- Yield
- Surrender
- Sign away
- Formally surrender
More clues leading to the result WAIVE
- Give up a claim
- Relinquish
- Forgo
- Forfeit, as a right
- Give up
- Relinquish, as a right
- Forfeit
- Put aside
- Surrender
- Give up, as a right
More clues leading to the result THROWINTHETOWEL
- Concede
- Give up
- Call it quits like a maid?
- Call it quits
- "Why don't you quit!"
- Quit
- Admit defeat
- Concede defeat
- Give up: Colloq.
- Quit, at ringside
More clues leading to the result QUIT
- Cry "uncle!"
- Throw in the towel
- Walk out
- Resign
- Swear off
- Terminate a session, for example
- Call it a day
- Pack it in
- Stop saying "Sorry," perhaps?
- Withdraw
More clues leading to the result YIELD
- Road sign
- Give up ground
- Grin and bear it
- Relinquish
- Knuckle under
- Triangular road sign
- Bond number
- Give way
- Triangular sign
- Concede
More clues leading to the result FORGO
More clues leading to the result RENOUNCE
More clues leading to the result CRYUNCLE
- Give
- Concede ... or a hint to the last words of the answers to starred clues
- Throw in the towel
- Cave
- Admit defeat
- Give up
- Back down
- Concede defeat
More clues leading to the result SACRIFICE
More clues leading to the result LETGOOF
More clues leading to the result SAYUNCLE
- Surrender, relatively speaking?
- Surrender
- Surrender, in a way
- Admit defeat
- Give in
- Give up, or what you might do before the starts of the answers to starred clues
- Give up
- Give up, relatively speaking
- "Give up!"
More clues leading to the result RAISEAWHITEFLAG
More clues leading to the result VACATE
- Annul
- Go away
- Leave the premises
- Empty
- No longer occupy
- Relinquish, as an office
- Obey an eviction notice
- Annul, as a judgment
- Move out
- Leave
More clues leading to the result CAVE
- Bat hideout
- __ in (yield)
- Home for a bat, a man, or Batman
- Go soft in negotiations
- React to pressure
- Yield
- Hermit's hideaway
- Bear lair
- Spelunking milieu
- Collapse
More clues leading to the result PACKITIN
More clues leading to the result DESPAIR
- Give up all hope
- Lose hope
- Hopelessness
- Loss of hope
- Give up hope
- Abandon hope
- Hopeless feeling
- Down state
- Lose heart
- Very blue state
More clues leading to the result PARTWITH
More clues leading to the result SOUNDTHERETREAT
More clues leading to the result CONCEDE
- Yield
- Grant
- Admit defeat
- Admit having lost
- Admit
- End it
- Give up
- Acknowledge the loss of an election
- Admit.
- Own.
More clues leading to the result SIGNAWAY
More clues leading to the result HANDOVER
More clues leading to the result SHED
- Get hair all over the rug
- Lose hair
- Molt
- Place for the lawn mower
- Repel·
- Shelter
- Cast off
- Get rid of
- Hut
- Repel
More clues leading to the result CALLITQUITS
More clues leading to the result LOSE
- Get trounced
- Mislay
- Place or show
- Take it on the chin
- Come in second
- Finish last
- Finish second
- Give the slip to
- Misplace
- Come in last
More clues leading to the result ABNEGATE
More clues leading to the result FORSAKE
- Desert
- Abandon
- Leave in the lurch
- Abandon.
- Desert.
- Give up.
- Renounce.
- Abandon ... or two words often seen next to the starts of 17-, 27-, 47- and 60-Across
- In favor of rice wine?
More clues leading to the result KICK
- Thrill
- Excitement
- Rifle's recoil
- Bowl-game start
- Field-goal attempt, e.g.
- Karate move
- Grouse
- Zing
- Soccer move
- Complain
More clues leading to the result DIE
- Gambling cube
- Tool and ____ set
- Trivial Pursuit need
- __-hard
- "The ___ is cast." (Caesar)
- Conk out
- It's one you roll
- Cube with dots?
- Gaming cube
- Monopoly cube
More clues leading to the result ABANDON
- Leave in the lurch
- Dump
- Freedom
- Strand
- Run out on
- Ditch
- Leave high and dry
- Recklessness
- Lack of inhibition
- Desert
More clues leading to the result SAYDIE
More clues leading to the result THROWINONESHAND
More clues leading to the result CHUCKITIN
More clues leading to the result DEMIT
- Resign
- Relinquish
- Resign or withdraw
- Withdraw from office
- Relinquish, as an office
- Withdraw, as from office
- Redesign, as a job
- Step down
- Abdicate
- To resign.
More clues leading to the result LOSEFAITH
More clues leading to the result RATON
More clues leading to the result LAYDOWNONESARMS
More clues leading to the result FOREGO
- Precede
- 1975 Horse of the Year
- Pass on
- Antedate
- Give up
- Antecede
- Do without.
- What Aesop's Fox decided to do to Grapes.
- Renounce.
- Precede.