losing one's life

Verb

lose one's life (third-person singular simple present loses one's life, present participle losing one's life, simple past and past participle lost one's life)

1. (euphemistic) To die, especially to be killed during involvement in an activity or in some other undertaking.
   • The people so highly resented this law, that our histories tell us, there have been six rebellions raised on that account; wherein one emperor lost his life.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput)

   Synonyms:

   assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be like the the One, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord, bite the big one, bite the biscuit