What does suicide mean?
Definitions for suicide
ˈsu əˌsaɪdsui·cide
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word suicide.
Princeton's WordNet
suicide, self-destruction, self-annihilationnoun
the act of killing yourself
"it is a crime to commit suicide"
suicide, felo-de-senoun
a person who kills himself intentionally
Wiktionary
suicidenoun
Intentional killing of oneself, as a kind of action or social phenomenon.
suicidenoun
A particular instance of a person intentionally killing himself or herself, or of multiple people doing so.
suicidenoun
A person who has intentionally killed him/herself.
suicidenoun
An action that creates serious difficulty for its performer.
suicidenoun
A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
suicidenoun
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.
suicidenoun
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.
suicideverb
To kill oneself intentionally.
Etymology: 1651, coinage (probably originating in) suicida, from sui (from suus) + -cida. Compare self-slaughter, self-blood.
Webster Dictionary
Suicideadverb
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
Suicideadverb
one guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se
Suicideadverb
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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Rank popularity for the word 'suicide' in Nouns Frequency: #1920
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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
They [capitalists] will furnish credits which will serve us for the support of the Communist Party in their countries and, by supplying us materials and technical equipment which we lack, will restore our military industry necessary for our future attacks against our suppliers. To put it in other words, they will work on the preparation of their own suicide.
Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Those kids there at Abbey Gate, they don’t get a choice to resign,” Milley said, referring to the 13 American service members who died during the evacuation from Kabul in late August when an ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest. “They can't resign so I'm not going to resign. There's no way.” MOST READ House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro fields questions about the politics of the federal debt in front of the House Rules Committee. Democrats back off debt fight to stop shutdown Top generals contradict Biden, say they urged him not to withdraw from Afghanistan Biden opposes changing Senate rules to raise debt limit ‘As adults, we failed’: New Jersey’s school bus driver shortage grows ‘dire’ Progressives dig in as Pelosi tries to save key vote
We feel like this is a true emergency, we have to take action and [Pulte] wants to be a part of the veteran community in doing what he can to decrease that number that we have daily thats committing suicide.
The family can handle if it was a suicide, it could also be a lynching.
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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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