overgive
verbUK /əʊvəˈɡɪv/
Etymology From over- + give. Compare Scots overgie (“to relinquish, resign”), Dutch overgeven (“to surrender”), German übergeben (“to hand over, surrender”), Danish overgive (“to surrender”).
1
Ambitransitive To give too lavishly.
2
Obsolete To give over, hand over, surrender; to relinquish.
- For th'heavens have decreëd to displace / The Britons for their sinnes dew punishment / And to the Saxons over-give their government.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
3
Obsolete To give up, terminate.