Yield up the ghost

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English

Verb

Infinitive to yield up the ghost

Third person singular yields up the ghost

Simple past yielded up the ghost

Past participle yielded up the ghost

Present participle yielding up the ghost

1. ((archaic{{#if:|, {{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}{{#if:|, {{{4}}}{{#if:|, {{{5}}}{{#if:|, {{{6}}}{{#if:|, {{{7}}}{{#if:|, {{{8}}}{{#if:|, {{{9}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}})) For a person, to die.

   1592: and often did I strive
   To yield the ghost: but still the envious flood
   Stopped in my soul, and would not let it forth
   — Shakespeare, Richard III, I.iv.36-38.

   1611: Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband. — King James Bible, Acts 5:10.

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