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 Definitions of Suicide  [ˈsu əˌsaɪd]  

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Definition of 'Suicide' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) suicide
the intentional taking of one's own life.

2.  suicide
destruction of one's own interests or prospects:
financial suicide.

3.  suicide
a person who intentionally takes his or her own life.

4. (v.i.) suicide
to commit suicide.

Etymology:  (1645–55; < NL suīcīdium,-cīda, der. of L suī of oneself, gen. sing. of reflexive pron.)

Definition of 'Suicide' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) suicide, self-destruction, self-annihilation
the act of killing yourself
"it is a crime to commit suicide"

2. (noun) suicide, felo-de-se
a person who kills himself intentionally


Definition of 'Suicide' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) suicide
the act of killing yourself
a verdict of suicide; There have been four suicides in the past 12 months.

2.  suicide
commit suicide
to kill yourself
He committed suicide at age 25.

3.  suicide
an action that is likely to have very serious consequences
It would be suicide for him to take that job.

4. (adjective) suicide
(of an attack) that kills the person making it
a suicide bomber


Definition of 'Suicide' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adverb) Suicide
the act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind

2. (adverb) Suicide
one guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se

3. (adverb) Suicide
ruin of one's own interests


Definition of 'Suicide' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

1.  Suicide
The act of killing oneself.


Translation of 'Suicide' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: the/an act of killing oneself deliberately
She committed suicide; an increasing number of suicides.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: selfmoord Arabic flag Arabic: انتِحار Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: самоубийство
Brazilian flag Brazilian: suicídio Czech flag Czech: sebevražda German flag German: der Selbstmord
Danish flag Danish: selvmord Greek flag Greek: αυτοκτονία Spanish flag Spanish: suicidio
Estonian flag Estonian: enesetapp Farsi flag Farsi: خودكشي Finnish flag Finnish: itsemurha
French flag French: suicide Hebrew flag Hebrew: הִתאַבּדוּת Hindi flag Hindi: आत्महत्या, आत्मघात
Croatian flag Croatian: samoubojstvo Hungarian flag Hungarian: öngyilkosság Indonesian flag Indonesian: tindakan bunuh diri
Icelandic flag Icelandic: sjálfsmorð Italian flag Italian: suicidio Japanese flag Japanese: 自殺
Korean flag Korean: 자살 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: savižudybė Latvian flag Latvian: pašnāvība
Malay flag Malay: bunuh diri Dutch flag Dutch: zelfmoord Norwegian flag Norwegian: selvmord
Polish flag Polish: samobójstwo Persian flag Persian: خودكشي Pashto flag Pashto: ځان وژل
Portuguese flag Portuguese: suicídio Romanian flag Romanian: suicid, sinu­cidere Russian flag Russian: самоубийство
Slovak flag Slovak: samovražda Slovenian flag Slovenian: samomor Serbian flag Serbian: samoubistvo
Swedish flag Swedish: självmord Thai flag Thai: การฆ่าตัวตาย Turkish flag Turkish: intihar
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 自殺 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: самогубство Urdu flag Urdu: خود کشی
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: sự tự tử Chinese flag Chinese: 自杀

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