Give up the ghost

Definition

ghost / gǝƱst / n ၁။ တေစၧ။ Her ghost is believed to haunt the old house. ❍ I don't believe in ghosts (ie don't believe that they exist). ❍ He looked as if he had seen a ghost (ie looked very frightened). ၂။ [sing] ~ of sth စိုးစဥ္း။ အစအန။ အရိပ္အေယာင္။ The ghost of a smile (ie A very faint smile) played round her lips. ❍ You haven't a ghost of a chance (ie You have no chance). ၃။ ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကားတြင္ ႏွစ္ထပ္ထင္သည့္ ပံုရိပ္။ v အျခားသူတစ္ဦးအတြက္ ကိုယ္စားေရးသား ျပဳစုသည္။ her ghosted memoirs (ie written by someone else) ❍ He ghosts for a number of sports personalities who ‘write’ newspaper columns. ❏ ghostly /'gǝƱstli / adj ( -ier , -iest ) တေစၧလိုလို။ ghostly shapes of bats flitting about in the dark. ❍ A ghostly voice seemed to whisper in my ear. ❏ ghost story n တေစၧပံုျပင္။ My friend is fond of reading ghost stories. ❏ ghost town n ၿမိဳ႕ဆိုး။ ❏ ghost-writer n အျခားသူတစ္ဦးအတြက္ ကိုယ္စား စာေရး ေပးေသာသူ။ (ဗန္း) ရွဲဒိုး။ ❏ give up the ghost [ IDM ] ၁။ ကြယ္လြန္သည္။ ၂။ ( joc ) နဇီဝသေဘာေလွ်ာသည္။ My car seems to have finally given up the ghost.

Examples

1. Do you believe in ghosts?
2. [the ghost of someone] : The ghost of a murdered woman is said to walk in the castle at night.
3. I know I don't have a ghost of a chance for advancement.