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give up the ghost
idiom
to die死，死去
humorous
If a machine gives up the ghost, it stops working: （机器）报废，不能运转，完蛋
Our old TV had finally given up the ghost.我们的老电视终于坏了。
UK
to stop trying to do something because you know that you will not succeed: 放弃…;对…绝望
All I'd cherished from early childhood had been denied me, so I simply gave up the ghost.我自童年起珍惜的一切都被夺走了，我只好放弃。
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posthumously
raise
raise someone from the deadidiom
remains
roadkill
self-extinction
sepulchrally
snuff itidiom
toll
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