commit suicide

English

Verb

commit suicide (third-person singular simple present commits suicide, present participle committing suicide, simple past and past participle committed suicide)

1. To kill oneself; to take one's own life.

Usage note

The conventional verb construction is "to commit suicide", dating from a time when suicide was considered a crime or a sin. Some mental-health advocates deprecate this usage as outdated and stigmatizing; suggested alternatives include "die by suicide", "suicide" (as a verb; an anthimeria), "complete suicide" (a term of art), or rephrasings without the word suicide.

Synonyms

• suicide
• top oneself
• take one's own life

Translations

to kill oneself

• Arabic: اِنْتَحَرَ‎‎ (intaḥara)
• Armenian: ինքնասպան լինել (inkʿnaspan linel)
• Azerbaijani: intihar etmək
• Belarusian: ско́нчыць жыццё самагу́бствам pf (skónčycʹ žyccjó samahúbstvam), пако́нчыць з сабо́й pf (pakónčycʹ z sabój)
• Biatah Bidayuh: bitŭkŭŭ
• Bulgarian: извърши самоубийство pf (izvǎrši samoubijstvo)
• Burmese: ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကိုသတ်သေ (my) (kuiy.kuiykuisatse)
• Catalan: suïcidar-se (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自殺 (zh), 自杀 (zh) (zìshā)

• Czech: spáchat sebevraždu
• Danish: begå selvmord
• Dupaningan Agta: magmunas
• Dutch: zelfmoord plegen
• Esperanto: mortigi sin, sinmortigi
• Estonian: enesetappu sooritama
• Faroese: taka lívið av sær
• Finnish: tehdä itsemurha
• French: se suicider (fr)
• Galician: suicidarse
• German: Selbstmord begehen
• Greek: αυτοκτονώ (el) (aftoktonó)
• Hebrew: הִתְאַבֵּד‎‎ (he) (hit'abéd)
• Hindi: आत्महत्या करना (ātma-hatyā karnā)
• Hungarian: öngyilkosságot követ el
• Ido: su-ocidar (io), ocidar su
• Irish: lámh a chur i do bhás féin, giorrú leat féin
• Italian: suicidarsi (it)
• Japanese: 自殺する (ja) (じさつする, jisatsu suru), 自死する (jishi suru)
• Kazakh: өзін-өзі мерт қылу (özin-özi mert qılw), өз жанын өзі қию (öz janın özi qïyw)
• Khmer: ធ្វើអត្តឃាតខ្លួនឯង (tvəə atta’ kʰiet kluən aeŋ)

• Korean: 자인하다 (ko) (ja-in-hada), 자살하다 (ko) (jasal-hada)
• Kyrgyz: өз жанын кыюу (öz canın kıyuu)
• Lao: ຂ້າຕົວຕາຍ (khā tua tāy)
• Latin: mihi mortem conscisco
• Macedonian: врши самоу́биство impf (v'rši samoúbistvo), извршува самоу́биство pf (izv'ršuva samoúbistvo)
• Malay: bunuh diri
• Mongolian: амиа хорлох (amia horloh)
• Norman: sé suicider, s'mêfaithe
• Norwegian: begå selvmord
• Persian: خودکشی کردن‎‎ (xod-koši kardan)
• Polish: popełnić samobójstwo pf
• Portuguese: suicidar-se
• Romanian: a sinucide (ro)
• Russian: поко́нчить жизнь самоуби́йством pf (pokónčitʹ žiznʹ samoubíjstvom), поко́нчить с собо́й (ru) pf (pokónčitʹ s sobój), наложи́ть на себя́ ру́ки (ru) pf (naložítʹ na sebjá rúki), свести́ счёты с жи́знью (ru) pf (svestí sčóty s žíznʹju)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: изврши самоубиство pf

  Roman: izvrši samoubistvo pf

• Slovak: spáchať samovraždu pf
• Slovene: naredíti samomòr pf
• Spanish: suicidarse (es)
• Swedish: begå självmord (sv), ta livet av sig (sv), ta sitt liv (sv)
• Tagalog: magpakamatay, magpatiwakal
• Tajik: худкушӣ кардан (xudkušī kardan)
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ปลงชีวิต (th) (bplong chee-wít), ฆ่าตัวตาย (kâa dtua dtaai), คิดสั้น (kít-sân)
• Turkish: intihar etmek
• Ukrainian: покі́нчити життя́ самогу́бством pf (pokínčyty žyttjá samohúbstvom), покі́нчити з собо́ю pf (pokínčyty z sobóju)
• Urdu: خود کشی کرنا‎‎ (xud kušī karnā)
• Vietnamese: tự tử (vi), tự sát (vi)
• Walloon: si mete a fén (wa), si distrure (wa), fé l' fén d' lu-minme (wa), fé måleur di s' coir