"give one's best" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: gives one's best [present, singular, third-person], giving one's best [participle, present], gave one's best [past], given one's best [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|gives one's best|giving one's best|gave one's best|given one's best}} give one's best (third-person singular simple present gives one's best, present participle giving one's best, simple past gave one's best, past participle given one's best)
  1. (transitive) To wish (someone) well Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-give_one's_best-en-verb-43PM9B6X Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 45 55 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50
  2. (intransitive) Synonym of give one's all. Tags: intransitive Synonyms: give one's all [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-give_one's_best-en-verb-paRuJTvZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 45 55 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50
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