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单词 to gasp up the ghost
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to gasp up the ghost
P1. to gasp up the ghost and variants: = to give up the ghost at ghost n. and adj. Phrases 1a; to die. Obsolete.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > be dying
to have one foot in the (also his, etc.) grave?1483
to draw on1484
to gasp up the ghost1577
gore1577
to turn one's face to the wall1579
to gasp one's last1603
groan1642
not to be long for this world1665
strugglea1674
to falter forth or out1814
to sprawl one's last1837
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande iii. f. 14/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I They left them goaring in their bloude..and gasping vp their flitting goastes.
1611 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 401 Som groaning Pagan may gasp out his ghost.
1850 H. Melville White-jacket xciii. 462 We have seen..our last man gasp out the ghost in the stifling Sick-bay.
1884 Puck (N.Y.) 5 Mar. 6/2 He gasped up the ghost.
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