"end one's life" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-end one's life.wav Forms: ends one's life [present, singular, third-person], ending one's life [participle, present], ended one's life [participle, past], ended one's life [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} end one's life (third-person singular simple present ends one's life, present participle ending one's life, simple past and past participle ended one's life)
  1. (euphemistic) To commit suicide. Tags: euphemistic
    Sense id: en-end_one's_life-en-verb-nOopBRgs Categories (other): English euphemisms, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Suicide Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 63 37 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 67 33 Disambiguation of Suicide: 100 0 Synonyms: take one's own life, an hero [Internet], catch the bus [euphemistic], commit hara-kiri [Internet, humorous], commit seppuku [Internet, humorous], commit sudoku [Internet, humorous], end one's life, kill oneself, off oneself, ropemaxx, self-delete [Internet, euphemistic], self-kill, suicide, take one's own life [euphemistic], top oneself [British, slang]
  2. To spend the rest of one's life a certain way. Synonyms: end one's days
    Sense id: en-end_one's_life-en-verb-WAXvzO-L
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