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take a life

VERB
murder
Synonyms
STRONGEST
assassinate behead butcher decapitate destroy execute exterminate lynch massacre shoot slaughter slay strangle
STRONG
abolish asphyxiate chill cool defeat dispatch drub electrocute eliminate eradicate extinguish finish garotte guillotine hang hit knife liquidate mangle mar misuse off ruin smother snuff spoil thrash waste
WEAK
blot out bump off do in knock off put away rub out take for a ride take out
Antonyms
STRONGEST
bear create give birth
STRONG
heal help preserve save
WEAK
guard protect

Example Sentences

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People may well get enough time to take a life safety action like “Drop, Cover and Hold On” – as long as they are sufficiently far away from the fault itself.

From Scientific American • Feb. 17, 2023

He said laws can’t make people love each other, but they can make it more difficult to take a life.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2022

"We need to start believing that people's lives matter, nobody has the right to take a life," she told WPVI-TV.

From Fox News • Sep. 27, 2021

“The state can no longer take a life away only because someone is sick, disabled, in poor health,” PiS lawmaker Bartlomiej Wroblewski told Reuters.

From Reuters • Jan. 27, 2021

How could he stop testifying to the risks of texting and driving when someone out there might still do it, and take a life?

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel