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take someone's life
take one's life in one's hands . Take a serious risk, as in Climbing without oxygen is really taking your life in your hands .
Kill someone, as in They argued about invoking the death penalty for taking someone's life . [c. 1300]
take one's own life . Commit suicide, as in Most churches have long opposed taking one's own life . [First half of 1900s]
Example Sentences
Stephanie McDonagh said: "We don't know if it was provoked or self-defence. Regardless of what happened, that doesn't give someone the right to take someone's life."
āBut at the same time, you do have these absolute nonsense, out-of-nowhere, irresponsible people, it almost makes me wonder if they realize that they have the potential to take someoneās life away.ā
Mills said, urging New Yorkers in a similar situation: āDonāt attack. Donāt choke. Donāt kill. Donāt take someoneās life. Donāt take someoneās loved one from them because theyāre in a bad place.ā
āCriminal justice reform shouldnāt mean that there is no accountability and that you can brutally take someoneās life and get a slap on the wrist.ā
āI beg you all to consider your words before you speak them for someone may use those words to justify action, action that may take someoneās life.ā
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