suicide

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

suicides

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

suicide

past (v2)

suicided

past participle (v3)

suicided

present participle

suiciding

3rd person singular

suicides

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.The act of intentionally killing oneself.

   • Would sir care to commit suicide?
   • The cowardice of suicide was abhorrent to him.
   • As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

2. 2.A particular instance of a person intentionally killing oneself, or of multiple people doing so.

   • There had been half a dozen mysterious suicides which had been investigated by Scotland Yard.

3. 3.A person who has intentionally killed themself.

   • "I remember one suicide," she said to Philip, "who threw himself into the Thames."

4. 4.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.

   • Italian communism and those on its left had committed political suicide.
   • "Mr. Glinn," said Britton, "it's suicide to take a huge ship like this past the Ice Limit. Especially in this weather."
   • He did not mention that Trump is about as popular with the British public as drug-resistant syphilis and that it would be political suicide to bribe him with cash out of the public fisc.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To intentionally kill oneself.

   • "Her husband suicided three years ago. Just like a man!"
   • Seems a lady poet suicided at Verringer's ranch in Sepulveda canyon one time.

2. 2.To destroy or self-destruct.

   • Here in America we just called them survivors, after the Chinese suicided their psychotic society in the seventies, and destroyed most of urban America in the process.

3. 3.To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide (now especially as part of a conspiracy).

   • Gelli also expressed skepticism about Calvi's ability to climb out over the scaffolding in his leather-soled city shoes. 'I think they suicided him.
   • Even if he did get charged, he would be suicided long before he could involve one of the city's most important politicians in the scam.

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