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throw in the towel

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give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope

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Variants

synonym
give up
pasttense
throwed in the towel
presentparticiple
throwing in the towel
thirdpersonsingular
throws in the towel
pastparticiple
throwed in the towel

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary1 senseview framework →
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give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope
DR-088 backfill from the verb definition column

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