suicide
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5.2
- noun
- /ˈsuːɪˌsaɪd/
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suicida
- My little brother was one of eight Navajo boys that committed suicide that summer in my area.
- a suicide bomber
Examples
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Those who are serious about suicide keep it to themselves and then kill themselves.
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The UK has the highest rate of male suicides in the whole of Europe.
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A friend wrote me of your suicide three or four months after it happened.
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Was it an accident, a suicide, or something else?
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But I never really suffered the suicide of someone close to me.
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Our friend just committed suicide.
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For every teenager who is recorded as having completed suicide, many more have attempted it.
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The rise in violent crimes and suicides by young people is so dramatic.
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They said he'd committed suicide, but his family thought it was foul play.
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The community has been shaken by the recent suicide of a local teenager.
Synonyms
A person who kills themselves
Compounds
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6.7
An act of ending a seriously ill person's life with help from another person to stop suffering
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7.9
An agreement between two or more people to kill themselves together at a set time and place
- Jargon
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9.1
A baseball play where the runner on third base runs home as the batter lightly hits the ball
Information and help to prevent people from killing themselves and support those affected
- Jargon
A risky baseball play where the runner on third base runs home while the batter bunts
- Informal
A nerve illness that causes very strong pain in the face and can make people think about ending their life
- Jargon
A planned action by a company to make itself less attractive to a buyer even if it harms the company
Surface Forms
Morphology
suicide = sui + cide
Although the word is historically analyzable as 'sui' + '-cide', the first element is not a productive English morpheme and the meaning is not recoverable for average learners.
Etymology
Suicide for a person comes from the same Latin parts sui 'of oneself' and -cide 'to kill'. So a suicide is literally 'a person who killed themselves', which is why the word names someone who has taken their own life.