Overgive

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /əʊvəˈɡɪv/

Origin

From - + give. Compare Scots overgie ("to relinquish, resign"), Dutch overgeven ("to surrender"), German übergeben ("to hand over, surrender"), Danish overgive ("to surrender").

Full definition of overgive

Verb

1. (transitive) To give over, hand over, surrender; to relinquish. from 15th c.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:For th'heavens have decreëd to displace
  The Britons for their sinnes dew punishment
  And to the Saxons over-give their government.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To give up, terminate. 16th-17th c.