suicide mission
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- noun
- /ˈsuːɪˌsaɪd ˈmɪʃən/
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misión suicida
- Think Serenity, with the crew being hunted and forced to go on one last suicide mission.
- sent on a suicide mission
- volunteering for a suicide mission
- flew a suicide mission
He was a helicopter pilot, and they had a mission in Afghanistan that was a suicide mission.
- He was a helicopter pilot, and they had a mission in Afghanistan that was a suicide mission.
- On what turns out to be a suicide mission, Concord is struck in the side by a lurking vice.
- No wonder I did all those suicide missions without a thought, because those four other men, my life was in their hands and their life was in mine.
- The greatest nation in mankind's history is on a suicide mission, and we can try to save it.
- And they realized this was a suicide mission.
Examples
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You said yourself it was a suicide mission.
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It takes a special man to volunteer for a suicide mission.
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I think it is a suicide mission.
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The truth is this has been a suicide mission from the beginning.
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Did he know he was on a suicide mission?
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This is a suicide mission.
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Hey, this is a suicide mission.
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It's pretty much a suicide mission.
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There is a recognition this is a suicide mission," the official said.
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The soldiers knew it was a suicide mission when they were ordered to infiltrate the enemy base.
Synonyms
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An attack where a person explodes a bomb to kill themselves and others
An attack in which a person kills or injures others and also dies, usually using a bomb
An attack where someone blows themselves up to kill or hurt others for a cause
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines the clear meanings of 'suicide' (causing one's own death) and 'mission' (an assigned operation), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes an operation where death is expected. The slight pragmatic nuance (participants may not literally intend self-harm but expect to die) is accessible from context and does not prevent straightforward compositional understanding.
Etymology
Suicide mission comes from war and paints a clear picture: a mission so dangerous that the people sent knew they would die, with suicide showing the idea of death. That's why it now means 'a mission where those involved expect to die'.