"lose one's life" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: loses one's life [present, singular, third-person], losing one's life [participle, present], lost one's life [participle, past], lost one's life [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|lose<,,lost> one's life}} lose one's life (third-person singular simple present loses one's life, present participle losing one's life, simple past and past participle lost one's life)
  1. (euphemistic) To die, especially to be killed during involvement in an activity or in some other undertaking. Tags: euphemistic Categories (topical): Death Synonyms: die Translations (to die): 喪生 (Chinese Cantonese), 丧生 (english: song³ sang¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 喪生 (Chinese Mandarin), 丧生 (sàngshēng) (Chinese Mandarin), menettää henkensä (Finnish), heittää veivinsä (Finnish), perdre la vie (French), ums Leben kommen (German), umkommen (German), életét veszti (Hungarian), perdere la vita (Italian), tracić życie [imperfective] (Polish), utracić życie [perfective] (Polish), perder a vida (Portuguese), погиба́ть (pogibátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), поги́бнуть (pogíbnutʹ) [perfective] (Russian), расстава́ться с жи́знью (rasstavátʹsja s žíznʹju) [imperfective] (Russian), расста́ться с жи́знью (rasstátʹsja s žíznʹju) [perfective] (Russian)

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