takes one's own life
takes one's own life is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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)
- 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
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