give-up the ghost

Questions about give-up the ghost

What is another word for give-up the ghost?

It depends which give-up the ghost you mean. In the sense “pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life”, the synonyms are die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, drop dead, pop off. Across all 1 sense there are 14 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of give-up the ghost?

WordNet records no antonym for give-up the ghost. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for give-up the ghost come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of give-up the ghost

• Full entry for give-up the ghostAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for give-up the ghostWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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