yield up the ghost

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[edit] Etymology

yield up + ghost

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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

to yield up the ghost (third-person singular simple present yields up the ghost, present participle yielding up the ghost, simple past and past participle yielded up the ghost)

  1. (archaic) 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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