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give-up the ghost

verb

1 give-up the ghost

Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.

synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire ... show more.

is a specific kind of: change state, turn.

is a broader term that covers: abort | asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate | buy it, pip out | drown | predecease | famish, starve | fall | succumb, yield.

verb group: break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad | die.

is the opposite of: be born.

see also: die down | die back, die down | die off, die out.

derivation: death | departure, exit, expiration, going, loss, passing, release | death, decease, expiry | Death | dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, decedent, departed | death | death | death, last.

Dutch: de pijp aan Maarten geven, vergaan, omkomen, creperen, doodgaan, expireren, heengaan, inslapen, insluimeren, kapotgaan ... show more

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