What does suicide mean?
Definitions for suicide
ˈsu əˌsaɪdsui·cide
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Princeton's WordNet
suicide, self-destruction, self-annihilation(noun)
the act of killing yourself
"it is a crime to commit suicide"
suicide, felo-de-se(noun)
a person who kills himself intentionally
Wiktionary
suicide(Noun)
Intentional killing of oneself, as a kind of action or social phenomenon.
Etymology: 1651, coinage (probably originating in ) suicida, from sui (from suus) + -cida. Compare self-slaughter, self-blood.
suicide(Noun)
A particular instance of a person intentionally killing himself or herself, or of multiple people doing so.
Etymology: 1651, coinage (probably originating in ) suicida, from sui (from suus) + -cida. Compare self-slaughter, self-blood.
suicide(Noun)
A person who has intentionally killed him/herself.
Etymology: 1651, coinage (probably originating in ) suicida, from sui (from suus) + -cida. Compare self-slaughter, self-blood.
suicide(Noun)
An action that creates serious difficulty for its performer.
Etymology: 1651, coinage (probably originating in ) suicida, from sui (from suus) + -cida. Compare self-slaughter, self-blood.
suicide(Noun)
A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
Etymology: 1651, coinage (probably originating in ) suicida, from sui (from suus) + -cida. Compare self-slaughter, self-blood.
suicide(Noun)
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.
Etymology: 1651, coinage (probably originating in ) suicida, from sui (from suus) + -cida. Compare self-slaughter, self-blood.
suicide(Noun)
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.
Etymology: 1651, coinage (probably originating in ) suicida, from sui (from suus) + -cida. Compare self-slaughter, self-blood.
suicide(Verb)
To kill oneself intentionally.
Etymology: 1651, coinage (probably originating in ) suicida, from sui (from suus) + -cida. Compare self-slaughter, self-blood.
Webster Dictionary
Suicide(adverb)
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
Etymology: [L. sui of one's self (akin to suus one's own) + caedere to slay, to kill. Cf. So, adv., Homicide.]
Suicide(adverb)
one guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se
Etymology: [L. sui of one's self (akin to suus one's own) + caedere to slay, to kill. Cf. So, adv., Homicide.]
Suicide(adverb)
ruin of one's own interests
Etymology: [L. sui of one's self (akin to suus one's own) + caedere to slay, to kill. Cf. So, adv., Homicide.]
Freebase
Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair, the cause of which is frequently attributed to a mental disorder such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse. Stress factors such as financial difficulties or troubles with interpersonal relationships often play a role. Efforts to prevent suicide include limiting access to firearms, treating mental illness and drug misuse, and improving economic development. The most commonly used method of suicide varies by country and is partly related to availability. Common methods include: hanging, pesticide poisoning, and firearms. Around 800,000 to a million people die by suicide every year, making it the 10th leading cause of death worldwide. Rates are higher in men than in women, with males three to four times more likely to kill themselves than females. There are an estimated 10 to 20 million non-fatal attempted suicides every year. Attempts are more common in young people and females. Views on suicide have been influenced by broad existential themes such as religion, honor, and the meaning of life. The Abrahamic religions traditionally consider suicide an offense towards God due to the belief in the sanctity of life. During the samurai era in Japan, seppuku was respected as a means of atonement for failure or as a form of protest. Sati, a now outlawed Hindu funeral practice, expected the widow to immolate herself on her husband's funeral pyre, either willingly or under pressure from the family and society.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Suicide
sū′i-sīd, n. one who dies by his own hand: self-murder.—adj. Sūicī′dal, pertaining to, or partaking of, the crime of suicide.—adv. Sūicī′dally.—n. Su′icidism, a tendency towards suicide. [Coined from L. sui, of himself, cædĕre, to kill.]
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Suicide
The act of killing oneself.
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Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'suicide' in Nouns Frequency: #1920
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of suicide in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of suicide in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of suicide in a Sentence
Kids are googling' how to suicide.' You get the alerts -- you get four or five a day.
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
We are having a national conversation about whether black lives matter, and one of the reasons we have not done a better job of preventing firearm violence is that we think – wrongly – that it primarily affects young black men, the data show that the societal burden of firearm violence falls predominately on older white men and involves primarily suicide, not homicide.
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.
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- selfmoordAfrikaans
- انتحارArabic
- intiharAzerbaijani
- самагу́бстваBelarusian
- самоуби́йствоBulgarian
- আত্মহত্যাBengali
- རང་ཤི་རྒྱབ་པTibetan Standard
- suïcidiCatalan, Valencian
- sebevražda, sebevrahCzech
- hunanladdwr, hunanladdwraig, hunanladdiadWelsh
- selvmorder, selvmordDanish
- Selbstmörder, Suizid, Suizident, Freitod, Selbstmord, SelbstmörderinGerman
- αυτοχειρία, αυτοκτονία, αυτόχειραςGreek
- sinmortigoEsperanto
- suicidio, suicidaSpanish
- enesetapp, enesehävitus, enesetapjaEstonian
- suizidioBasque
- انتحار, خودکشیPersian
- itsemurha, itsemurhaajaFinnish
- suicide, suicidéeFrench
- féinmharú, féinmharfóirIrish
- fèin-mhurtair, fèin-mhurtScottish Gaelic
- suicidioGalician
- hene-varrooder, hene-varrooManx
- התאבדות, מתאבד, מתאבדתHebrew
- आत्महत्याHindi
- öngyilkosság, öngyilkosHungarian
- ինքնասպանություն, ինքնասպանArmenian
- bunuh diri, pembunuh diriIndonesian
- sjálfsbani, sjálfsmorðingi, sjálfsmorð, sjálfsvígIcelandic
- suicidio, suicidaItalian
- 自殺, 自殺者Japanese
- თვითმკვლელობაGeorgian
- өзін өзі өлтірушілікKazakh
- សម្លាប់ខ្លួនឯង, អត្តឃាតKhmer
- ಆತ್ಮಹತ್ಯೆKannada
- 自殺, 자살Korean
- өзүн өзү өлтүрүүKyrgyz
- suicidium, mortem sibi conscivitLatin
- ອັດຕະວິນິບາດກຳLao
- savižudybėLithuanian
- pašnāvībaLatvian
- самоубиство, самоубиецMacedonian
- амиа хорлохMongolian
- bunuh diriMalay
- ကိုယ်ကိုသတ်ခြင်းBurmese
- zelfmoordenaar, zelfdoding, zelfmoordDutch
- selvmordsoffer, selvmordNorwegian
- хиамарынOssetian, Ossetic
- samobójstwo, samobójca, samobójczyniPolish
- suicídio, suicidaPortuguese
- sinucidere, sinucigașă, sinucigașRomanian
- самоуби́йство, самоубийство, самоуби́йца, суици́дRussian
- самоубиство, sȕicīd, суицид, samoùbojica, samoùbōjstvoSerbo-Croatian
- samovraždaSlovak
- samomorilec, samomorilka, samomorSlovene
- vetëvrasjeAlbanian
- självmördare, självmordSwedish
- jiuaSwahili
- ఆత్మహత్యTelugu
- интиҳор, худкушӣTajik
- การฆ่าตัวตายThai
- özüni öldürmeTurkmen
- pagpapatiwakalTagalog
- intiharTurkish
- суїци́д, самогу́бствоUkrainian
- خودکُشی, آتم ہتیاUrdu
- suitsid, oʻzini oʻldirish, xudkushlikUzbek
- 自殺, 自死, tự tử, tự sátVietnamese
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