suicide

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Derived terms 1.2.2 Related terms 1.2.3 Translations 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.4 See also 2 French 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Noun 2.3 Verb 3 Italian 3.1 Adjective 3.2 Noun 4 Spanish 4.1 Verb

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From Latin suīcīda, from suī (from suus (“‘one’s own’”)) + -cīda (“‘one who kills’”).

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suicide (countable and uncountable; plural suicides)

1. (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.

2. (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’.

3. (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."

4. (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.

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to suicide (third-person singular simple present suicides, present participle suiciding, simple past and past participle suicided)

1. (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!"

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• top oneself
• commit suicide

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• hara-kiri
• kamikaze
• seppuku

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suicide m. (plural suicides)

1. Suicide (all forms)

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suicide

1. form of suicider

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suicide pl.

1. Feminine form of suicida.

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suicide f.

1. Plural form of suicida.

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suicide (infinitive: suicidar)

1. first-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of suicidar.
2. formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of suicidar.
3. third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of suicidar.