The doctors had virtually given her up for dead, but she eventually recovered. 医生们实际上已经认定她救不活了，可她最终康复了。
After a three-day search on the mountain, they gave him up for dead. 在山中搜寻了3天后，他们认为他不可能再有生还希望，便停止了搜救。
He'd been missing so long, even his wife had given him up for dead.
I wasn't going to give up on her if there was the smallest possibility she was alive.
Her mother refused to give her up for dead.
See also: give someone up