Suicide

Noun

 * 1)  Intentional killing of oneself, as a kind of action or social phenomenon.
 * 2) * 1904, Harold MacGrath, The Man On The Box, ch. 22:
 * The cowardice of suicide was abhorrent to him.
 * 1)  A particular instance of a person intentionally killing himself or herself, or of multiple people doing so.
 * 2) * 1919, Edgar Wallace, The Secret House, ch. 14:
 * There had been half a dozen mysterious suicides which had been investigated by Scotland Yard.
 * 1) * 1999, Philip H. Melling, Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-0978-9, page 192:
 * In this way the Heaven’s Gate community were not only escaping the threat of ‘global destruction’, they were hurling themselves directly into ‘the lap of God’, using their suicide as a way of ‘bridging the chasm’ between an earthly world which had no future and ‘a thousand years of unmitigated peace’.
 * 1)  A person who has intentionally killed him/herself.
 * 2) * 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, ch. 95:
 * "I remember one suicide," she said to Philip, "who threw himself into the Thames."
 * 1)  An action that creates serious difficulty for its performer.
 * 2) * 1959, Everett Dirksen, in the Congressional Record, Feb. 9, page 2100:
 * I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
 * 1)  A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
 * 2) * 1994, Christopher Buckley, Cruising State: Growing Up in Southern California, University of Nevada Press, ISBN 0-87417-247-0, p. 34:
 * You could sit at a corner and order your Suicide, and one of two twin brothers who worked there would hold an old-fashioned soda glass, a heavy tall V-shaped one with a round foot at the bottom, and go down the line with one shot of everything—cherry, lemon, Coke, and chocolate syrups—before adding soda water.
 * 1) * 2000, Mark Pendergrast, For God, Country and Coca-Cola, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-05468-4, p. 15:
 * Using Coca-Cola as a base, a suicide called for the addition of every other flavor available.

Derived terms

 * mass suicide
 * murder-suicide
 * suicidal
 * suicidal


 * suicide attack, suicide attacker
 * suicide bomb, suicide bomber, suicide bombing
 * suicide king


 * suicide mission
 * suicide note
 * suicide pact

Related terms

 * fratricide
 * herbicide
 * infanticide


 * insecticide
 * matricide
 * parricide


 * patricide
 * pesticide
 * regicide

Verb

 * 1)  To kill oneself intentionally.
 * 2) * 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, ch. 11:
 * "Her husband suicided three years ago. Just like a man!"

Synonyms

 * top oneself
 * commit suicide
 * do oneself in

Adjectives for Suicide
involuntary; would-be; eventual; political; cold; brave; planned.

Verbs for Suicide
avert—; commit—; conceal—; contemplate —; feign—; flirt with—; goad to—; grieve over—; incite to—; resign to—; resort to—; reveal—; —allures; —betrays; —closes; — dramatizes; —exposes; —frees; —mystifies; —relinquishes.

Thesaurus
aborticide, car of Jagannath, disembowelment, felo-de-se, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, hara-kiri, herbicide, homicide, infanticide, insecticide, mass suicide, matricide, microbicide, parricide, patricide, pesticide, regicide, ritual suicide, rodenticide, self-destruction, self-immolation, self-murder, self-sacrifice, seppuku, sororicide, suttee, sutteeism, uxoricide, vermicide

Etymology
1651, coinage (probably originating in ) suicida:, from  sui: (from suus:) +  -cida:. Compare self-slaughter.

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Azeri: intihar
 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese:
 * Simplified: 自杀 (zìshā)
 * Traditional: 自殺 (zìshā)
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: bunuh diri
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 自殺 (jisatsu)


 * Korean: 자살 (jasal)
 * Latin: suicidium
 * Macedonian:
 * Manx:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Novial: selftuo
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: sinucidere
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: fèin-mhurt
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: самоубиство
 * Roman: samoubistvo
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఆత్మహత్య
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: самогубство, суїцид
 * Welsh: hunanladdiad


 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese: 自殺者 (zishazhe)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: selvmorder
 * Dutch:
 * French: ,
 * German: Suizident, Selbstmörder , Selbstmörderin
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: מתאבד, מתאבדת
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: sjálfsmorðingi
 * Indonesian: pembunuh diri
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 自殺者 (jisatsusha)


 * Macedonian: самоубиец
 * Manx:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Novial: selftuere
 * Old English:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: sinucigaș, sinucigașă
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: fèin-mhurtair
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: самоубица, самоубилац
 * Roman: samoubica, samoubilac
 * Slovene: samomorilec, samomorilka
 * Swedish: självmördare
 * Welsh:, hunanladdwraig


 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Macedonian:


 * Romanian: sinucidere
 * Russian:
 * Turkish: intihar

Adjective
suicide



Noun
suicide



Anagrams

 * sudicie