suicide, self-destruction, self-annihilation
(noun) the act of killing yourself; “it is a crime to commit suicide”
suicide, felo-de-se
(noun) a person who kills himself intentionally
Source: WordNet® 3.1
suicide (countable and uncountable, plural suicides)
(uncountable) Intentional killing of oneself.
(countable) A particular instance of a person intentionally killing himself or herself, or of multiple people doing so.
(countable) A person who has intentionally killed him/herself.
(figuratively) An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death is not the aim of the action.
(countable) A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
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.
(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.
A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
(attributive) pertaining to a suicide bombing; as suicide belt, suicide vest
• See usage note at commit suicide
• self-killing, self-murder, self-slaughter, self-slaying
• See also kill
suicide (third-person singular simple present suicides, present participle suiciding, simple past and past participle suicided)
(intransitive) To kill oneself intentionally.
(transitive) To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide (now especially as part of a conspiracy).
To self-destruct.
• autodarwinate, top oneself, commit suicide, do oneself in, self-kill
• (to put to death): see kill, murder, disappear
• See also kill
suicide (not comparable)
Relating to suicide.
Source: Wiktionary
Su"i*cide, n. Etym: [L. sui of one's self (akin to suus one's own) + caedere to slay, to kill. Cf. So, adv., Homicide.]
1. 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. One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.
3. Ruin of one's own interests. "Intestine war, which may be justly called political suicide." V. Knox.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 January 2025
(noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; “the political ferment produced new leadership”; “social unrest”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
