Usually means: Cease functioning, die, or fail.
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  1. give-up the ghost: Vocabulary.com
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  3. give-up the ghost: Rhymezone
  4. give-up the ghost: FreeDictionary.org
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  6. give-up the ghost: TheFreeDictionary.com

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verb:  die


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