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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

yield the ghost en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To give up the ghost.
    • and often did I strive / To yield the ghost: but still the envious flood / Stopped in my soul, and would not let it forth c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], pages line36-38:

Forms

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yielded the ghost Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
yielded the ghost Tense=Past lexicographic
yields the ghost Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
yield up the ghost alternative lexicographic
yielding the ghost Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic