took a life (verb) murder: kill
Detalii: the general term for the killing of a person by another is homicide; murder is either the intentional killing or malicious killing of another; manslaughter is the unintentional, accidental killing of another through carelessness
Sinonime: abolish,
asphyxiate, assassinate, behead, blot out, bump off, butcher,
chill*,
cool*, decapitate,
defeat,
destroy,
dispatch, do in, drub, dust off, electrocute,
eliminate,
eradicate,
execute, exterminate,
extinguish,
finish, garotte, guillotine,
hang,
hit*,
knife, knock off, liquidate, lynch, mangle,
mar,
massacre,
misuse,
off*, put away, rub out,
ruin,
shoot,
slaughter, slay,
smother, snuff,
spoil, strangle, take a life, take for a ride,
take out*,
thrash*,
waste*
Antonime: guard,
preserve,
protect,
save