take someone's life

take someone's life (third-person singular simple present takes someone's life, present participle taking someone's life, simple past took someone's life, past participle taken someone's life)

1. To kill someone; to cause someone's death.

• claim someone's life

• “take someone s life” (US) / “take someone s life” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “take life”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “take someone's life”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.