Formally gave up
The crossword clue "Formally gave up" is answered by CEDED, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
CEDED
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CEDED answer page.
Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for CEDED
Every other clue in this collection answered by CEDED, most used first.
- Gave up - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
- Relinquished - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Handed over - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Surrendered - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Yielded - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Granted - used 11 times, most recently in 2012
- Gave up, as land - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Signed over - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Surrendered, as land - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Turned over - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Gave a hoot - CARED, used 66 times
- Gave medicine to - DOSED, used 43 times
- Gave a hand - DEALT, used 36 times
- Gave a darn - CARED, used 30 times
- Speak formally - ORATE, used 25 times
- Fergie, formally - SARAH, used 22 times
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