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suicide
/ˈsuɪˌsaɪd/
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What does suicide mean?
noun
- The act of intentionally killing oneself.
- A particular instance of a person intentionally killing oneself, or of multiple people doing so.
- A person who has intentionally killed themself.
More meanings (9)
noun
- (figuratively) An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death may not be the aim of the action.
- (slang) A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
- A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.
- A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by a return to the start, with no pause between one sprint and the next.
- A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
- Pertaining to a suicide bombing.
verb
- To intentionally kill oneself.
- To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide (now especially as part of a conspiracy).
- (figuratively) To destroy or self-destruct.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsuɪˌsaɪd/
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If suicide formed part of what he had meditated on coming to this sepulchre, to that spot, he had not succeeded.
It amounted to three hundred and sixty francs, which is very different from the ten thousand francs and the threat of suicide.
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All actions of despair, tearing the beard, beating hands and feet together, rage at one’s own health, and finally suicide may ensue.
In regard to this discourse, I should only like to point out that Nietzsche had a particular aversion to the word “suicide”—self-murder.
Immediately beneath and about them the lines of the Gothic building plunged outwards into the void with a sickening swiftness akin to suicide.