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su·i·cide

(so͞o′ĭ-sīd′)

1. The act or an instance of intentionally killing oneself.

2. The destruction or ruin of one's own interests: It is professional suicide to involve oneself in illegal practices.

3. One who commits suicide.

intr.v. su·i·cid·ed, su·i·cid·ing, su·i·cides

To kill oneself; commit suicide.

adj.

Relating to, involving, or resulting in one's voluntary death.

[Latin suī, of oneself; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots + -cide.]

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suicide

(ˈsuːɪˌsaɪd; ˈsjuː-)

1. (Psychology) the act or an instance of killing oneself intentionally

2. the self-inflicted ruin of one's own prospects or interests: a merger would be financial suicide.

3. (Psychology) a person who kills himself intentionally

4. (modifier) reckless; extremely dangerous: a suicide mission.

5. (Military) (modifier) (of an action) undertaken or (of a person) undertaking an action in the knowledge that it will result in the death of the person performing it in order that maximum damage may be inflicted on an enemy: a suicide attack; suicide bomber.

[C17: from New Latin suīcīdium, from Latin suī of oneself + -cīdium, from caedere to kill]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

su•i•cide

(ˈsu əˌsaɪd)

n., v. -cid•ed, -cid•ing. n.

1. the intentional taking of one's own life.

2. destruction of one's own interests or prospects: financial suicide.

3. a person who intentionally takes his or her own life.

v.i.

4. to commit suicide.

[1645–55; < New Latin suīcīdium,-cīda, derivative of Latin suī of oneself, genitive singular of reflexive pronoun]

suicide

1. the killing of oneself.
2. one who has killed himself. — suicidal, adj.

suicide

noun taking your own life, self-destruction, ending it all (informal), self-immolation, self-murder, self-slaughter, topping yourself (informal) a case of attempted suicide

Related words
like autophonomania

Quotations
"Suicide is confession" [Daniel Webster]
"It is cowardice to commit suicide" [Napoleon Bonaparte]
"A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!" [Arthur Miller After the Fall]

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Translations

انتِحارمُنْتَحِريَنْتَحِرُ

sebevraždasebevrah

selvmordselvmorder

Selbstmord Suizid Freitod Selbstmörder

αυτοκτονία

suicidio suicida suicidarse

itsemurha

suicide suicidé suicidée

samoubojstvosuicidsamoubojica

öngyilkosöngyilkosság

sjálfsmorðsjálfsmorîsjálfsmorîingi

suicidio suicida sarebbe un suicidio...

自殺

자살

linkęs nusižudytisavižudissavižudiškaisavižudiškassavižudybė

pašnāvībapašnāvnieks

zelfmoord zelfmoordenaarzelfdoding

selvmord selvmorderselvmordsofferselvdrap

samobójstwo samobójcasamobójczyni

suicídio suicida

самоубийство самоубийца суицид

samovraždasamovrah

samomor

självmord

การฆ่าตัวตาย

intiharintihar eden kimse

sự tự vẫn

自杀自杀者

suicide

[ˈsʊɪsaɪd]

A. N

1. (= act) → suicidio m
to commit suicide → suicidarse
it would be suicide to do that (lit, fig) → sería suicida hacer eso
it would be political suicide to agree to this → consentir esto supondría el suicidio político
a case of attempted suicide → un caso de intento de suicidio

2. (= person) → suicida mf

B. CPD suicide attempt N → intento m de suicidio
suicide bomber N → terrorista mf suicida
suicide bombing N → bombardeo m suicida
suicide mission N → misión f suicida
suicide note N carta en que se explica el motivo del suicidio
suicide pact N → pacto m suicida
suicide rate N → índice m de suicidios
suicide squad N → comando m suicida

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

suicide

[ˈsuːɪsaɪd] n

(= act) → suicide m
to commit suicide → se suicider

(fig) (= ruinous course of action) → suicide m
It would be political suicide to abstain → Cela serait un suicide politique que de s'abstenir.

(= person) → suicidé(e) m/fsuicide attack n → attentat-suicide msuicide attempt suicide bid n → tentative f de suicidesuicide bomber n → auteur m d'un attentat-suicidesuicide note n → lettre f de suicidesuicide pact n → pacte m de suicide

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

suicide

n → Selbstmord m, → Freitod m (euph), → Suizid m (spec); (= person) → Selbstmörder(in) m(f); to commit suicide → Selbstmord begehen; to try to commit suicide → einen Selbstmordversuch unternehmen; to contemplate suicide → sich mit Selbstmordgedanken tragen; suicide squad → Selbstmordkommando nt

suicide

suicide attack

n → Selbstmordanschlag m

suicide attacker

n → Selbstmordattentäter(in) m(f)

suicide attempt, suicide bid

n → Selbstmord- or Suizidversuch m

suicide bomber

n → Selbstmordattentäter(in) m(f)

suicide bombing

n → Selbstmordanschlag m

suicide note

n → Abschiedsbrief m

suicide pact

n → Selbstmordabkommen nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

suicide

[ˈsʊɪsaɪd] n

a. (also) (fig) → suicidio
to attempt suicide → tentare il suicidio
to commit suicide → suicidarsi

b. (person) → suicida m/f

suicide

(ˈsuːisaid) noun

1. the/an act of killing oneself deliberately. She committed suicide; an increasing number of suicides.

2. a person who kills himself deliberately.

ˌsuiˈcidal adjective

1. inclined to suicide. She sometimes feels suicidal.

2. extremely dangerous, or likely to lead to death or disaster. He was driving at a suicidal speed.

ˌsuiˈcidally adverb

suicide

→ يَنْتَحِرُ sebevražda selvmord Selbstmord αυτοκτονία suicidio itsemurha suicide samoubojstvo suicidio 自殺 자살 zelfmoord selvmord samobójstwo suicídio самоубийство självmord การฆ่าตัวตาย intihar sự tự vẫn 自杀

su·i·cide

n. suicidio; suicidarse;

attempted ___ → tentativa o intento de ___.

suicide

n suicidio; assisted — suicidio asistido; physician-assisted — suicidio asistido por un médico; — attempt intento suicida or de suicidio; — gesture gesto suicida; to commit — suicidarse

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Boys came in with hands mangled by some machine, men were brought who had been knocked down by a cab, and children who had broken a limb while playing: now and then attempted suicides were carried in by the police: Philip saw a ghastly, wild-eyed man with a great gash from ear to ear, and he was in the ward for weeks afterwards in charge of a constable, silent, angry because he was alive, and sullen; he made no secret of the fact that he would try again to kill himself as soon as he was released.

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It was obvious that to him Blanche Stroeve was only a unit to be added to the statistical list of attempted suicides in the city of Paris during the current year.

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"It was long before I brought myself to take the only step befitting a Catholic; indeed, my thoughts ran on suicide. This succession of misfortunes had contributed to develop melancholy feelings in me, and I deliberately determined to take my own life.

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Duson left a letter addressed to me in which he announced his reasons for committing suicide."

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THE Members of a Legislature, being told that they were the meanest thieves in the world, resolved to commit suicide. So they bought shrouds, and laying them in a convenient place prepared to cut their throats.

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One hardly goes to the parish constable with a story of suicide imposed by witchcraft or auto-suggestion."

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Remember, madame, if our God forbids falsehood, he much more severely condemns suicide."

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I wondered if a practiced swimmer like myself had ever tried to commit suicide by drowning, and had been so resolute to die that he had resisted the temptation to let his own skill keep him from sinking.

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The verdict at the inquest was "natural suicide." In his Memoirs of Manager, M.

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The doubt did not prevent him from dangling at the door-post, in my consciousness, and many a time I shunned the sight of this problematical suicide by keeping my eyes fastened on the book before me.

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Jocolpus Bumer, of the University of Belgrade, who established his conclusions on the subject in a work of three quarto volumes and committed suicide on being reminded that the j in the Roman alphabet had originally no curl.

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And Levin, a happy father and husband, in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord that he might not be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun for fear of shooting himself.

Noun	1.	suicide - the act of killing yourself; "it is a crime to commit suicide" self-annihilation, self-destruction kill, putting to death, killing - the act of terminating a life assisted suicide - suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible felo-de-se - an act of deliberate self destruction harakiri, hara-kiri, harikari, seppuku - ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society suttee - the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband
	2.	suicide - a person who kills himself intentionally felo-de-se killer, slayer - someone who causes the death of a person or animal