take one's own life
take one's own life verb: to kill oneself; to commit suicide.
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)
- 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 own life
| third-person singular present | takes one's own life |
|---|---|
| present participle | taking one's own life |
| past participle | took one's own life |
| past | took one's own life |
| alternative form | take one's life |
Questions about take one's own life
- What does take one's own life mean?
- Take one's own life means to kill oneself; to commit suicide.
- What part of speech is take one's own life?
- Take one's own life is a verb.
- What is the past tense of take one's own life?
- The past tense of take one's own life is took one's own life.
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