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take someone to the grave

take someone to the grave verb: to kill someone; to cause someone's death.

Verb

take someone to the grave (third-person singular simple present takes someone to the grave, present participle taking someone to the grave, simple past took someone to the grave, past participle taken someone to the grave)

  1. (idiomatic) To kill someone; to cause someone's death.
    • Two weeks later, cancer took him to the grave.

Forms of take someone to the grave

third-person singular presenttakes someone to the grave
present participletaking someone to the grave
pasttook someone to the grave
past participletaken someone to the grave
alternative formtake someone to their grave

Questions about take someone to the grave

What does take someone to the grave mean?
Take someone to the grave means to kill someone; to cause someone's death.
What part of speech is take someone to the grave?
Take someone to the grave is a verb.
What is the past tense of take someone to the grave?
The past tense of take someone to the grave is took someone to the grave.

Words near take someone to the grave in the dictionary

  1. take someone at their word
  2. take someone down the garden path
  3. take someone for all they've got
  4. take someone out back
  5. take someone to brown town
  6. take someone to the grave
  7. take someone up short
  8. take someone's arm
  9. take someone's breath away
  10. take someone's fancy
  11. take someone's head off

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