Search Result for "buy_the_farm":
Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life;
- Example: "She died from cancer"
- Example: "The children perished in the fire"
- Example: "The patient went peacefully"
- Example: "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
[syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

buy the farm v 1: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be born]