take one's own life

English

Alternative forms

• take one's 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)

1. (euphemistic) To kill oneself; to commit suicide.
   • 1981, Shao Yen-hsiang, “Chia Kuei-hsiang”, in Hualing Nieh, editor, Literature of the Hundred Flowers‎^[1], volume II, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 156:

     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 surrounding her death on October 11 of that year. Depressed after reading such a story, I wrote this poem in the hope that there will never be another Chia Kuei-hsiang.

Translations

commit suicide — see commit suicide