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Verb: throw in the towel
  1. Give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
    - drop out, give up, fall by the wayside, drop by the wayside, throw in, quit, chuck up the sponge [US, non-standard]

Derived forms: throws in the towel, throwing in the towel, threw in the towel, thrown in the towel

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