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What does give up the ghost mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word give up the ghost? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To cease clinging to life; to die.
  2. (intransitive, idiomatic, figuratively) To quit; to cease functioning.
  3. (intransitive, with of) To cede a commitment to or identification with.
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A few reactors in her brain decided to give up the ghost, and she simply stared, incapable of speech or action.
Onions give up the ghost, flesh sizzles, a metal spoon clinks on a dish.
Having queued for 45 minutes to get money, the three bank machines each give up the ghost.
The engine inside his or her head will give up the ghost at the next bend.
But McCartney, 50, is hardly ready to give up the ghost of his creative past.
In the case of our Sea Kings, personnel live in perpetual fear that those antiquated helicopter will just give up the ghost after their many years of faithful service.

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