to commit suicide
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6.2
- phrasal verb
- /kəˈmɪt ˈsuːɪˌsaɪd/
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suicidarse
- Many people suffering from depression have tragically chosen to commit suicide.
- try to commit suicide
- likely to commit suicide
- father committed suicide
But when his son committed suicide, what did he do?
- But when his son committed suicide, what did he do?
- And look, people don't just commit suicide when things are bad.
- Yeah, because my grandmother committed suicide, which is what stopped me.
- Are smart people more or less likely to commit suicide?
- All four of her previous husbands had committed suicide, which may have been a bit of a red flag.
- The numbers that are committing suicide is phenomenal.
- Anyone who thinks that Epstein committed suicide is naive.
- She's tried to commit suicide on multiple times.
- He, he had, he, he, he committed suicide and which is why he died young.
- But let's say they are still thinking about, let's say committing suicide, for example, happens.
- A, a friend of mine had committed suicide kind of weeks before we started filming.
- And I tried to commit suicide two times.
- Even the grandchildren of the people who were forced to move commit suicide and have alcohol problems.
Examples
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She tried to commit suicide three times.
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My little brother was one of eight Navajo boys that committed suicide that summer in my area.
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But when his son committed suicide, what did he do?
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Our friend just committed suicide.
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I was supposed to meet her outside, but I got caught up watching this news report about some kid that committed suicide.
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A young man wanted to commit suicide because law school was so hard.
Fiction book (1990) -
And sadly he committed suicide two years after that.
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People with intention to commit suicide will not get married, right?
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Do you know how many kids in my high school committed suicide 'cause they didn't know what they wanted to do?
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And look, people don't just commit suicide when things are bad.
Synonyms
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8.6
To end your life on purpose
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8.7
To kill yourself because you feel you cannot go on
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents directly contribute to the meaning: 'suicide' names the deliberate act of causing one's own death and 'commit' means to carry out an act, so 'commit suicide' straightforwardly means to carry out suicide (intentionally kill oneself). This composition is cross-linguistically common (e.g., Spanish 'cometer suicidio' / reflexive forms) and follows predictable English patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the words will understand it.
Etymology
Commit suicide comes from a time when people used the verb commit for crimes. Because suicide used to be treated as a crime, people talked about 'committing' it the same way they spoke about 'committing a crime'. So today commit suicide still means 'to kill oneself on purpose'.