All give up the ghost antonyms

verb give up the ghost

• grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
• improve — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
• bear — If you bear something somewhere, you carry it there or take it there.
• continue — If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop.
• begin — To begin to do something means to start doing it.
• live — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
• develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
• flourish — to be in a vigorous state; thrive: a period in which art flourished.
• commence — When something commences or you commence it, it begins.
• create — To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.
• revive — to activate, set in motion, or take up again; renew: to revive old feuds.
• build — If you build something, you make it by joining things together.
• appear — If you say that something appears to be the way you describe it, you are reporting what you believe or what you have been told, though you cannot be sure it is true.
• arrive — When a person or vehicle arrives at a place, they come to it at the end of a journey.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• rise — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
• start — to begin or set out, as on a journey or activity.
• deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
• refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
• ascend — If you ascend a hill or staircase, you go up it.
• overcome — to get the better of in a struggle or conflict; conquer; defeat: to overcome the enemy.
• defend — If you defend someone or something, you take action in order to protect them.
• fight — a battle or combat.
• conquer — If one country or group of people conquers another, they take complete control of their land.
• win — to finish first in a race, contest, or the like.