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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act or an instance of intentionally killing oneself.
  2. n. The destruction or ruin of one's own interests: It is professional suicide to involve oneself in illegal practices.
  3. n. One who commits suicide.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who commits suicide; at common law, one who, being of the years of discretion and of sound mind, destroys himself.
  2. n. The act of designedly destroying one's own life. To constitute suicide at common law, the person must be of years of discretion and of sound mind. The word is by some writers used to include the act of one who, in maliciously attempting to kill another, occasions his own death, as where a man shoots at another and the gun bursts and kills himself. H. Stephen.
  3. n. Figuratively, destruction of one's own interests or aims.
  4. To be guilty of suicide.

Wiktionary

  1. n. uncountable Intentional killing of oneself, as a kind of action or social phenomenon.
  2. n. countable A particular instance of a person intentionally killing himself or herself, or of multiple people doing so.
  3. n. countable A person who has intentionally killed him/herself.
  4. n. figuratively An action which could have the literal or figurative death of a person or organization as its consequence, although death is not the aim of the action.
  5. n. countable A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
  6. n. 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.
  7. n. countable 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.
  8. v. intransitive To kill oneself intentionally.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. 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. n. One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.
  3. n. Ruin of one's own interests.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person who kills himself intentionally
  2. n. the act of killing yourself

Etymologies

  1. 1651, New Latin coinage (probably originating in English) suīcīda, suīcīdium, from Latin suī (from suus ("one’s own")) + Latin -cīda ("one who kills"). Compare self-slaughter, self-blood. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin suī, of oneself; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots + -cide. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. self-murder
  1. felo-de-se
  1. top oneself
  1. do oneself in
  1. commit suicide

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. killer
  1. slayer

same context (21)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. murder
  2. homicide
  3. disaster
  4. violence
  1. rape
  2. robbery
  3. insanity
  4. destruction
  1. torture
  2. assault
  3. illness
  4. accident
  1. failure
  2. starvation
  3. marriage
  4. assassination
  1. poverty
  2. divorce
  3. injury
  4. death
  1. rebellion

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. felo-de-se
  2. harakiri
  3. assisted suicide
  4. seppuku
  5. physician-assisted suicide
  6. kamikaze
  7. hari-kari
  8. suicidal
  9. suicidology
  10. haje
  11. haquebut
  12. to lay hands on one's self
  13. self-blood
  1. self-murder
  2. self-murderer
  3. suicide
  4. suicidism
  5. kaabang
  6. showId
  7. hydromania
  8. medicide
  9. Hitler
  10. Cato
  11. Braun
  12. Thisbe
  13. Pyramus
  1. Rudolf
  2. Masada
  3. Mark Antony
  4. Nero
  5. Tsvetaeva
  6. self-destruction
  7. seamy
  8. Rommel
  9. Brutus
  10. life
  11. suicidigenous
  12. palestinian hizballah
  13. programmed cell death
  1. qassam brigades
  2. salah al-din battalions
  3. sep 11
  4. sept. 11
  5. september 11
  6. shaheed
  7. suicide pact
  8. plant
  9. dido
  10. Hamas
  11. iz al-din al-qassam battalions
  12. major depressive episode
  13. 9/11
  1. apoptosis
  2. Brunhild
  3. brunnhilde
  4. Brynhild
  5. caspase-mediated cell death
  6. islamic resistance movement
  7. self-destroyer
  8. self-homicide
  9. self-slaughter
  10. asp
  11. disembowel
  12. drive
  13. degeneration
  1. pailoo
  2. zenonian

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  1. immolate
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  • nuxiy We`ll never know. Mar 19, 2009

  • arcadia Yeah, leave 'em laughin', right? I guess you could say he did Carlin proud. Perhaps Life is Worth Losing was the kid's inspiration... Mar 19, 2009

  • nuxiy Horrible as it may be, atleast the guy had a good sense of humour. Mar 19, 2009

  • arcadia True (morbid) story: My husband's classmate senior year committed suicide by hanging himself. His note simply read "Got rope?"
    Mar 19, 2009

  • nuxiy "Hey, guys! Guess what? Keep on reading! How are you? I hope you are fine. I am not fine - as you can no doubt tell from me hanging here from the ceiling fixture. You are the ones who drove me to this. I was doing just fine until you fuckers came along. I hope you're happy now that I'm goddamn dead. Signed, The Corpse in This Room. P.S: Fuck you people!"
    - George Carlin in Life is worth losing, explaining how a suicide note should be. Mar 19, 2009

  • bilby "The Army recorded it highest ever number of suicides last year, with 115 soldiers killing themselves, Reuters reports. The rate is staying high this year, with 38 soldier suicides so far. The military said the statistics showed no direct link between the increase in suicides and repeated deployments to combat zones—but admitted the stresses of war were taking their toll."
    - 'Soldier Suicides Set Record', newser.com, 30 May 2008. Sep 30, 2008

  • sakhalinskii Not insightful, not necessary either. Jul 31, 2008

  • darqueau I'm no romanticizer of suicide... however, The Sorrows of Young Werther is one of my all-time favorite books. I can no longer think or hear of suicide without young beloved Werther coming to mind. Jul 31, 2008

  • chained_bear Not funny. Not clever either. Jul 31, 2008

  • sakhalinskii A logical conclusion to an illogical life. Jul 31, 2008

  • chained_bear Yeah. I guess if you're that afraid of dying, then dying might cure that fear. And everything else you'll ever experience. Mar 3, 2008

  • skipvia That reminds me of an HP Lovecraft story in which the protagonist, having acquired the ability to peer into the future, sees himself lying helplessly in a vegetative state. To prevent this from happening, he decides to take his life by shooting himself in the head. The attempt is not successful, though--his wounds put him into a vegetative state... Mar 3, 2008

  • gangerh From a suicide note: 'Action cures fear, they taught me. To overcome your fear do the thing that you are afraid of. I was afraid of dying'. Mar 2, 2008

  • oroboros “Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.�?

    --Dorothy Parker Jul 2, 2007

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