suicide
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[edit] Etymology
1651, New Latin coinage (probably originating in English) suīcīda, suīcīdium, from Latin suī (from suus (“one’s own”)) + Latin -cīda (“one who kills”). Compare self-slaughter, self-blood.
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suicide (usually uncountable; plural suicides)
- (uncountable) Intentional killing of oneself, as a kind of action or social phenomenon.
- 1904, Harold MacGrath, The Man On The Box, ch. 22:
- The cowardice of suicide was abhorrent to him.
- 1904, Harold MacGrath, The Man On The Box, ch. 22:
- (countable) A particular instance of a person intentionally killing himself or herself, or of multiple people doing so.
- 1919, Edgar Wallace, The Secret House, ch. 14:
- There had been half a dozen mysterious suicides which had been investigated by Scotland Yard.
- 1999, Philip H. Melling, Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-0978-9, page 192:
- In this way the Heaven’s Gate community were not only escaping the threat of ‘global destruction’, they were hurling themselves directly into ‘the lap of God’, using their suicide as a way of ‘bridging the chasm’ between an earthly world which had no future and ‘a thousand years of unmitigated peace’.
- 1919, Edgar Wallace, The Secret House, ch. 14:
- (countable) A person who has intentionally killed him/herself.
- 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, ch. 95:
- "I remember one suicide," she said to Philip, "who threw himself into the Thames."
- 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, ch. 95:
- (figuratively) An action that creates serious difficulty for its performer.
- 1959, Everett Dirksen, in the Congressional Record, Feb. 9, page 2100:[1]
- […] I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
- 1959, Everett Dirksen, in the Congressional Record, Feb. 9, page 2100:[1]
- (countable) A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
- 1994, Christopher Buckley, Cruising State: Growing Up in Southern California, University of Nevada Press, ISBN 0-87417-247-0, p. 34:
- You could sit at a corner and order your Suicide, and one of two twin brothers who worked there would hold an old-fashioned soda glass, a heavy tall V-shaped one with a round foot at the bottom, and go down the line with one shot of everything—cherry, lemon, Coke, and chocolate syrups—before adding soda water.
- 2000, Mark Pendergrast, For God, Country and Coca-Cola, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-05468-4, p. 15:
- Using Coca-Cola as a base, a suicide called for the addition of every other flavor available.
- 1994, Christopher Buckley, Cruising State: Growing Up in Southern California, University of Nevada Press, ISBN 0-87417-247-0, p. 34:
- A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.
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Terms derived from the noun "suicide"
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Terms which are etymologically related to "suicide"
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the event
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the person
figurative: action
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[edit] Verb
suicide (third-person singular simple present suicides, present participle suiciding, simple past and past participle suicided)
- (intransitive) To kill oneself intentionally.
- 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, ch. 11:
- "Her husband suicided three years ago. Just like a man!"
- 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, ch. 11:
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[edit] Noun
suicide m. (plural suicides)
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suicide
- first-person singular present indicative of suicider
- third-person singular present indicative of suicider
- first-person singular present subjunctive of suicider
- first-person singular present subjunctive of suicider
- second-person singular imperative of suicider
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suicide pl.
- feminine form of suicida
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suicide f. pl.
- Plural form of suicida.
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suicide (infinitive suicidar)
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