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suicide Definition

sui·cide (so̵̅o̅′ə sīd′)

noun

  1. the act of killing oneself intentionally
  2. ruin of one's interests or prospects through one's own actions, policies, etc.
  3. a person who commits suicide

Etymology: L sui, of oneself (< IE *sewe-, refl. pron. < base *se-, apart > OE swæs, own) + -cide

intransitive verb -·cid′ed, -·cid′·ing

Rare to commit suicide

suicide Synonyms

suicide

n.

self-murder, self-slaughter, self-destruction, hara-kiri, seppuku, suttee; see also death 1.

suicide Law Definition

n

The voluntary and intentional act of taking one’s own life. It was a felony under common law, but is somewhat murky in today’s criminal courts. There is also no unanimity on whether either assisted suicide or attempted suicide are criminal acts.
suicide Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • commit: Finally, his wife commits suicide, joining him in death.
  • contemplate: The opening chapter ends with Barrett contemplating suicide: . This gives me something to think about for the next three or four hours.
  • assist: There should be no law change to allow assisted suicide.
  • attempt: New research shows more than a third of young people know someone who has attempted suicide.
  • commiting: This triggers a chain reaction in the cancer cells, which can result in them commiting suicide.
  • threaten: The criminality of abortion would be reaffirmed, even in cases of threatened suicide.

Adjective modifier

  • attempted: Study 2 - Risk factors for parents ' attempted suicide.
  • committed: Rommel, linked to a plot to kill Hitler, committed suicide on Hitler's orders.
  • physician-assisted: The call came on Friday in response to the introduction of a new Bill by Lord Joffe to legalize physician-assisted suicide.
  • commited: She was only ten years old when her father commited suicide.
  • apparent: Tho the UK media refers to Dr. Kelly's " apparent suicide, " no one has looked into the possibility of foul play.
  • tragic: Unfortunately, Antonia's studies came to an end with her father's tragic suicide.

Modifies a noun

  • bomber: The suicide bombers did not come out of thin air.
  • pact: He believes that he must have talked his mother into the suicide pact.
  • bomb: Between 2004 and 2005 the number of car and roadside bombs doubled, and suicide bombs trebled.
  • prevention: Also, the center participates in the suicide prevention project of the Flemish mental health centers.
  • attempt: There have been numerous suicide attempts in the detention camp.

Noun used with modifier

  • copycat: The Committee felt that the risk of copycat suicides should be addressed specifically.
  • placebo: Some of the placebo suicides took place while patients were withdrawing from an older drug.
suicide Quotes

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide.With failure comes failure.

—Heller,Joseph

   There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, thanthemanwho has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

—Hemingway, Ernest Millar

Ourexcessive tolerance of suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.

—Durkheim, EŁ  mile

For coloured girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.

—Shange, Ntozake originally Paulette Williams

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the race.

—Adams, Henry Brooks

To marry is to domesticate the Recording Angel.Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

With the publication of his private papers in1952, he committed suicide 25 years after his death.

—Baron

Thethoughtofsuicide isagreat sourceofcomfort across many a bad night.

—Nietzsche, FriedrichWilhelm

Preparing for suicide is not a very intelligent means of defence.

—Kent, Bruce

   A suicide kills two people, Maggie. That's what it's for.

—Miller, Arthur

Deathbed utterances, like suicide notes, are a powerful coinage, stamped byan awareness that words can outlive us.

—Plout, David

Le suicide, cette myste¤  rieuse voie de fait sur l'inconnu. Suicide: that mysterious route towards the unknown.

—Hugo,Victor Marie

Preface to aTwenty Volume Suicide Note.

—Jones

As he saw it, there was only one choiceöto be strong and upright, or to commit suicide.

—Mishima,Yukio pseudonym of  Hiraoka Kimitake

We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide.

—Macdonald, (James) Ramsay

Some people swim lakes, others climb flagpoles, some join monasteries, but we, my friends, who have considered suicide take our daily walk with death and are not lonely. In the end it brings more honesty and care than all the democratic parliaments of tricks.

—Webb, Phyllis