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  • noun An act of suicide committed by crashing a car
  • noun agriculture Control of a pest through propagation of sterile males
  • noun bacteriology A substance produced by an bacterium that is fatal to that bacterium
  • noun obsolete, rare A suicidal person.

Etymologies

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auto +‎ -cide

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auto- + -cide

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  • Suicide.

    January 6, 2008