lose one's life

verb

Definitions

  1. To die, especially to be killed during involvement in an activity or in some other…

    To die, especially to be killed during involvement in an activity or in some other undertaking.

    • 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.
    • I have no ambition to lose my life on the post-road between St. Petersburgh and Archangel.
    • “[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.”

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