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take one's life

take one's life is the alternative form of take one's own life.

Meaning of take one's own life

Verb

take one's own life (third-person singular simple present takes one's own life, present participle taking one's own life, simple past and past participle took one's own life)

  1. (euphemistic) To kill oneself; to commit suicide.
    • Chia Kuei-hsiang was a young worker at the Horticultural Model Farm in Chia-mu-ssu. On July 27, 1956, having long suffered the abuse of subjectivists and bureaucrats, she took her own life. Comrade Wang Ko, a reporter for the Heilunkiang Daily News, published a report of the circumstances...1981, Shao Yen-hsiang, “Chia Kuei-hsiang”, in Hualing Nieh, editor, Literature of the Hundred Flowers, volume II, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 156

Forms of take one's life

third-person singular presenttakes one's life
present participletaking one's life
pasttook one's life
past participletaken one's life

Questions about take one's life

What is take one's life the alternative form of?
Take one's life is the alternative form of take one's own life.

Words near take one's life in the dictionary

  1. take one's half out of the middle
  2. take one's hat off to
  3. take one's hook
  4. take one's kit off
  5. take one's leave
  6. take one's life
  7. take one's life in one's hands
  8. take one's lumps
  9. take one's medicine
  10. take one's own hide to market
  11. take one's own life

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