To Give Up
To Abandon
transitive verb, ichidan verb
This word consists of kanji with hiragana attached. Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means give up or abandon so the verb version is to give up or to abandon.
You hopefully learned this reading with the kanji, but here's a reminder just in case:
Just before you're ready to give up on something, you yell, "AKIRA (あきら)!". You don't know anyone named Akira, you just saw it in a movie once and it made sense, you know? So now when you've tried really hard on something, but you have to abandon it anyway, you shout AKIRA into the sky. I just did it while trying to write this mnemonic!
死んでも漢字の勉強を諦めないで！
Even if you die, don't give up on learning kanji!
コウイチはついにポケモンマスターになる夢を諦めた。
Koichi finally abandoned his dream of becoming a Pokemon master.
山のようなレビューを諦めずにやるかリセットするかは、とても難しい選択です。
Doing a mountain of reviews without giving up or resetting—it's a difficult choice.