lose one's life
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To die, especially to be killed during involvement in an activity or in some other undertaking.
Example Sentences
- "The people so highly resented this law, that our histories tell us, there have been six rebellions raised on that account; wherein one emperor lost his life."
- "I have no ambition to lose my life on the post-road between St. Petersburgh and Archangel."
- "“[H]is own wife lost her life with an accident that come to a horse that hadn't room to turn right with a harrow between the bush and the wall.”"
- "“Do you think, Sir, that you could possibly send me on some mission for the paper? . . . anything that had adventure and danger in it. . . .” “You seem very anxious to lose your life.”"
- "[E]nemy fighters killed 2,320 of the troops who lost their lives in Iraq through December 2."
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
assume room temperature
auger in
be called home
be gathered to one's fathers
be like the the One
be no more
be with Jesus
be with the Lord
bite the big one
bite the biscuit
bite the dust
buy the farm