claim sb's life
If a violent event, fighting, or a disease claims someone's life, it kills that person:
The war has claimed thousands of lives.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Killing
- assisted suicide
- commit suicide idiom
- decimation
- do for sb/sth
- drown
- early
- electrocute
- end it (all) idiom
- fatal
- finish
- hara-kiri
- killer
- life-threatening
- malignant
- mortally
- put sth down 1
- shooting
- slaughterhouse
- suicide
- terminal
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