human life

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Noun

human life (countable and uncountable, plural human lives)

1. (law) The life of a human being.

   Coordinate term: human death

   devoid of human life

   The disaster took a terrible toll in human life.

   Many animals died, but, thankfully, human lives were spared.

   • 1882, Joseph A. Dacus, Illustrated Lives and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James and the Younger Brothers, the Noted Western Outlaws, page 362:

     These all go to constitute the atoms of the mighty tide of human life;