to suicide
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6.5
- verb
- /ˈsuːɪˌsaɪd/
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- The story highlighted the devastating effects of depression and how it can lead individuals to choose suicide.
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Watch on YouTubeI've seen a lot of people suicide, killing themselves.
- I've seen a lot of people suicide, killing themselves.
Examples
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" Once you lose someone to suicide, you are so prone to suicide yourself."
Blog text (9) -
He felt that life had become unbearable, leading him to contemplate suicide as a way out of his pain.
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If life is truly meaningless, is committing suicide the only rational response?
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The papers had gone wild over that: screaming headlines, speculations about conspiracies, pious editorials on the massive guilt that had forced him to suicide.
Fiction book (1991) -
After struggling with her mental health for years, she tragically decided to suicide rather than seek help.
Synonyms
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6.2
To kill yourself on purpose
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6.7
To ruin your own life or job by your actions
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9.8
To stop something yourself, for example closing an account, making a device stop working, or ending your own life
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8.4
To cause a machine or person to stop working by their own action
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8.7
To kill yourself because you feel you cannot go on
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8.6
To end your life on purpose
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
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31
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
- Informal
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9.1
A nerve illness that causes very strong pain in the face and can make people think about ending their life
- Jargon
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8.2
A planned action by a company to make itself less attractive to a buyer even if it harms the company
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
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Surface Forms
Morphology
suicide = suicide (transparent) = sui + cide
This is a zero-derivation verb from the noun 'suicide'; once the noun is known, the verb sense is straightforward.
Etymology
The verb suicide is built from sui 'of oneself' and -cide 'to kill', so to suicide is to 'kill oneself' on purpose; that is why the verb means to intentionally end one's own life.