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GIVE-UP THE GHOST
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Example:
The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
Synonyms:
snuff it; pop off; perish; pass away; pass; kick the bucket; go; give-up the ghost; expire; exit; drop dead; die; decease; croak; conk; choke; cash in one's chips; buy the farm
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "give-up the ghost" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Verb group:
break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad (stop operating or functioning)
die (suffer or face the pain of death)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "give-up the ghost"):
abort (cease development, die, and be aborted)
asphyxiate; stifle; suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)
buy it; pip out (be killed or die)
drown (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating)
predecease (die before; die earlier than)
famish; starve (die of food deprivation)
fall (die, as in battle or in a hunt)
succumb; yield (be fatally overwhelmed)
Sentence frame:
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