yield up the ghost

verb

yield up the ghost

verb

1

Archaic, Idiomatic For a person, to die.

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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 5:10:

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