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Meaning of yield up the ghost | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

For a person, to die.

archaic, idiomatic

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

yielded yielded the field yielded the ghost yielded up yielded up the ghost yieldedst

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