give over

1. (transitive, now rare) To give up, hand over, surrender (something).
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition II, section 2, member 4:

     Diocletian, the emperor, was so much affected with it that he gave over his sceptre and turned gardener.

2. (transitive) To entrust (something) to another.

   She gave the deeds over to the solicitor.

3. (transitive) To devote or resign to a particular purpose or activity; to yield completely.

   The factory has been entirely given over to aircraft manufacture.

   He gave himself over to a monastic life.

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (book), book 3, ch. II, Gospel of Mammonism

     For, as indeed was very natural in such case, all government of the Poor by the Rich has long ago been given over to Supply-and-demand, Laissez-faire and such like, and universally declared to be ‘impossible’.

4. (transitive) To quit, to abandon.
5. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To give up; abandon; stop.

   Give over with your nonsense, will you!