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give-up the ghost

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from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

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hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. change state
  2. turn

hyponyms (13)

Words more specific or concrete

  1. abort
  2. asphyxiate
  3. buy it
  4. drown
  5. fall
  6. famish
  7. pip out
  8. predecease
  9. starve
  10. stifle
  11. succumb
  12. suffocate
  13. yield

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