Upgive

Quick meaning: Upgive is a verb meaning (transitive, poetic, obsolete except in Scots law) To give up or yield up.

Meaning

(transitive, poetic, obsolete except in Scots law) To give up or yield up.

Example Sentences

[…] we hereby resign, surrender, upgive, overgive and deliver, ALL and WHOLE — (here the lands were described) — together with all right, title and interest whatever […]

Then, too, are Jersey's sons all resolute, / Repairing to the camp in numbers great, / Their sufferings to avenge upon the foe, / Which all must cease should Jersey be upgiven.

There fell a sudden rain then, from the gods: / Which glisters, in the sun, like golden hairs; / And earth upgave sweet savour of her sod, / Mingled with iron stink of sweat and blood.

Word Forms

• upgives
• upgiving
• upgave
• upgiven

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overgive, upyield, ayield, ungive, give up, cede.

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