しをえらぶ – Vocabulary details

しをえらぶ

Expression

Verb (5-dan, ぶ)

1. to commit suicide; to end one's life; (lit.) to choose death

death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out

to choose; to select

むしろ名めい誉よあるしをえらびたい。

I would prefer an honorable death.

降こう伏ふくするくらいならしをえらびます。

I'd rather die than surrender.

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