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Verb: give-up the ghost
Usage: informal
  1. Cease to live; lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
    - die, decease [archaic], perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket [informal], cash in one's chips [informal], buy the farm [N. Amer, informal], conk [informal], drop dead, pop off [informal], choke, croak [informal], snuff it [informal], flatline [informal], cop it [Brit, informal], cash in [informal], pop one's clogs [informal]

Type of: change state, turn

Nearest

give vent
give voice
give way
give-and-go
give-and-take
giveaway
given
given name
givenness
giver
give-up the ghost
giving
giving birth
giving medication
giving up
Giza
Gizeh
gizmo
gizzard
Gjellerup
G-Jo