Suicide

  • 31suicide — 1. The act of taking one s own life. 2. A person who commits such an act. [L. sui, self, + caedo, to kill] physician assisted s. voluntary termination of one s own life by administration of a lethal substance with the direct or indirect… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 32suicide — noun (C, U) 1 the act of killing yourself: attempt suicide (=try tokill yourself) | commit suicide (=kill yourself): Gill committed suicide last year after losing her job. see kill 1 2 political/social suicide something you do that ruins your… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 33suicide — [ˈsuːɪˌsaɪd] noun I 1) [C/U] the action of deliberately killing yourself Police believe he committed suicide.[/ex] 2) [U] something that you do that is likely to have very bad results for you II adj suicide [ˈsuːɪˌsaɪd] a suicide attack will kill …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 34suicide — /ˈsuəsaɪd / (say soohuhsuyd) noun 1. the intentional taking of one s own life. 2. deliberate destruction of one s own interests or prospects. 3. someone who intentionally takes their own life. –adjective 4. designating an activity or undertaking… …

  • 35suicide — Intentional self killing. Wide definitions would include martyrdom and self sacrifice; narrower definitions would be motivated by the thought that these cases are frequently noble and heroic, whereas suicide is a common object of moral… …

    Philosophy dictionary

  • 36suicide — [ su:ɪsʌɪd] noun 1》 the action of killing oneself intentionally.     ↘a person who does this.     ↘[as modifier] relating to or denoting a military or terrorist operation carried out by people who do not expect to survive it: a suicide bomber. 2》 …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 37suicide — Self destruction; the deliberate termination of one s own life. Attempted suicide is a crime in some jurisdictions, but not in others. Some jurisdictions hold an attempted suicide which kills an innocent bystander or would be rescuer to be murder …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 38suicide — Death by one s own hand intentionally lifted against himself. 29A Am J Rev ed Ins § 1145. By statute in Missouri, every person deliberately assisting another in the commission of self murder shall be deemed guilty of manslaughter in the first… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 39SUICIDE — n. m. Action de celui qui se tue lui même. La religion, la morale défendent le suicide. Fig., C’est un suicide se dit d’une Action, d’une démarche qui ruine celui qui la fait …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 40suicide — 1. noun a) Intentional killing of oneself, as a kind of action or social phenomenon. The cowardice of suicide was abhorrent to him. b) A particular instance of a person intentionally …

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