take one's own life

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take one's own life

verb takes one's own life · taking one's own life · took one's own life · take one's life

  1. euphemistic 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 surroundin

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@misc{take_one_s_own_life_2026,
  title = {take one's own life},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/take%20one's%20own%20life},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}