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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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Indeed once the float bulkhead was repaired and then reinforced by the Groupama team's shore crew, with the assistance of a handful of South African's from Team Shosholoza, it was the generator which was to give up the ghost.
To tell the truth, folks, there are so many debates running in parallel here that I'm inclined to give up the ghost.
Onions give up the ghost, flesh sizzles, a metal spoon clinks on a dish.
But McCartney, 50, is hardly ready to give up the ghost of his creative past.
A few reactors in her brain decided to give up the ghost, and she simply stared, incapable of speech or action.
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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