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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 lifeplay

    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)

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