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lose one's life en · VERB

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Meanings

1. (euphemistic) To die, especially to be killed during involvement in an activity or in some other undertaking.
   • “[H]is own wife lost her life with an accident that come to a horse that hadn't room to turn right with a harrow between the bush and the wall.” 1893, William Butler Yeats, “The Friends of the People of Faery”, in The Celtic Twilight:
   • “Do you think, Sir, that you could possibly send me on some mission for the paper? . . . anything that had adventure and danger in it. . . .” “You seem very anxious to lose your life.” 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 2, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
   • I have no ambition to lose my life on the post-road between St. Petersburgh and Archangel. 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
   • [E]nemy fighters killed 2,320 of the troops who lost their lives in Iraq through December 2. 2006 December 30, Unmesh Kher, “By the Numbers: The U.S. Death Toll”, in Time:
   • 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):

Forms

Synonyms

liquidate · knock off · decompose · drop off the hooks · cross the Styx · pay the debt of nature · meet one's maker · turn up one's toes · succumb · be with the Lord · go the way of the dinosaurs · go over to the majority · be called home · pass over · pass on · dematerialize · bite the biscuit · bite the big one · go west · cark it · exit · buy it · code · draw one's last breath · peg out · yield up the ghost · conk out · be no more · give one's all · fall off the twig · perish · cash in · meet one's doom · pay nature's debt · disincarnate · slip away · pop off · hop the twig · expire · push up daisies · be like the the One · hand in one's dinner pail · go to glory · lose the number of one's mess · pass in one's marble · sink · croak · go to one's reward · buy the farm · kick the bucket · cash in one's chips · pass · pass away · flatline · cross the Great Divide · take a dirt nap · hand in one's checks · forfare · bite the dust · kick off · snuff it · go out · meet one's end · auger in · cross over · go the way of all flesh · check out · darken · join the choir invisible · pass in one's checks · go the way of the dodo · assume room temperature · keel over · decease · go the way of the dodo bird · pass the river · depart · pop one's clogs · shuffle off this mortal coil · give up the ghost · go for a burton · be gathered to one's fathers · close one's eyes for the last time · sleep with one's fathers · be with Jesus

Translations (18)

ru расста́ться с жи́знью (to die) · fi menettää henkensä (to die) · de umkommen (to die) · ru расстава́ться с жи́знью (to die) · hu életét veszti (to die) · fi heittää veivinsä (to die) · ta உயிரிழ (to die) · ru поги́бнуть (to die) · ru погиба́ть (to die) · cmn 喪生 /丧生 (to die) · fr perdre la vie (to die) · de ums Leben kommen (to die) · pl tracić życie (to die) · yue 喪生 /丧生 (to die) · pl utracić życie (to die) · nl omkomen (to die) · it perdere la vita (to die) · pt perder a vida (to die)