| Definitions | verb (yields up the ghost, yielding up the ghost, yielded up the ghost)
- (archaic) For a person, to die.
- 1592: and often did I strive <br> To yield the ghost: but still the envious flood <br> Stopped in my soul, and would not let it forth <br> — w:Shakespeare, Shakespeare, w:Richard III, 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. — w:King James Bible, King James Bible, Acts 5:10.
Etymology: yield up + ghost
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