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giving up the ghost

  • as indying
  • as inperish
  • as insuccumb
  • as indie
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Synonyms for giving up the ghost

adj failing, expiring
  • decaying
  • doomed
  • fading
  • moribund
  • declining
  • disintegrating
  • ebbing
  • fated
  • final
  • going
  • mortal
  • passing
  • perishing
  • sinking
  • vanishing
  • withering
  • at death's door
  • at end of rope
  • done for
  • giving up the ghost
  • in extremis
  • on last leg
  • one foot in grave

Antonyms for giving up the ghost

  • permanent
  • creating
  • developing
  • growing
  • living
  • reviving
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

More words related to giving up the ghost

dying

adjective. failing, expiring
  • at death's door
  • at end of rope
  • decaying
  • declining
  • disintegrating
  • done for
  • doomed
  • ebbing
  • fading
  • fated
  • final
  • giving up the ghost
  • going
  • in extremis
  • moribund
  • mortal
  • on last leg
  • one foot in grave
  • passing
  • perishing
  • sinking
  • vanishing
  • withering
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.