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suicide

noun
/ˈs(j)uːɪˌsaɪd/UK/ˈsuɪˌsaɪd/US/ˌsuːɪˈsaɪd/

Etymology

First attested in Thomas Browne's Religio Medici (1643) in noun sense 1, ostensibly from New Latin suīcīdium, from suī (genitive reflexive pronoun) + -cīdium (“act of killing or murder”), but often believed to have originated in English before entering Latin. Displaced native Middle English seolf-cwale from Old English selfcwalu (literally “self-slaughter”), after which suicide may have been modelled, or calqued (compare manuscript). Noun sense 3 is perhaps by analogy with words like homicide, patricide (see -cide), or, although unlikely, from Medieval Latin suīcīda; see the Etymology section at suīcīdium.

  1. derived from suīcīda; see the Etymology section at suīcīdium
  2. derived from seolf-cwale from Old English selfcwalu — “self-slaughter”
  3. derived from suīcīdium

Definitions

  1. The act of intentionally killing oneself.

    • As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
    • The cowardice of suicide was abhorrent to him.
    • I realize and I can see / That suicide is painless / It brings on many changes / And I can take or leave it if I please

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

    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. A person who has intentionally killed themself.

    • "I remember one suicide," she said to Philip, "who threw himself into the Thames."
    • Poets have been ill-fated in Russia ever since the Revolution: Vladimir Mayakovsky and Sergei Esenin, among the two great poets of the Revolutionary era, were suicides; […]
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization,…

      An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death is not the aim of the action.

      • political suicide
      • […] I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
      • "Mr. Glinn," said Britton, "it's suicide to take a huge ship like this past the Ice Limit. Especially in this weather."

    2. A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.

      • Using Coca-Cola as a base, a suicide called for the addition of every other flavor available.

    3. A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the…

      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.

    4. A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by…

      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.

      • The coach makes us run suicides at the end of each basketball practice.

    5. A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are…

      A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.

    6. Pertaining to a suicide bombing.

      • suicide belt
      • suicide vest

    7. 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.

    8. To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a…

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

      • 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.
      • 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.

    9. 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.

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Derived

antisuicide, assisted suicide, bullycide, career suicide, commit suicide, cybersuicide, desuicide, double suicide, double-suicide, ethnosuicide, infinite suicide, mass suicide, medicide, murder by suicide, murdercide, murder-suicide, nonsuicide, parasuicide, postsuicide, presuicide, professional suicide, prosuicide, pseudocide, pseudosuicide, quantum suicide, race suicide, Samsonic suicide, sewer slide, sillycide, suicidal, suicide attack, suicide attacker, suicide bag, suicide baiting, suicide battery, suicide bomb, suicide bomber, suicide bombing, suicide booth, suicide burn · +48 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for suicide. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA