SUICIDE

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

Etymology

Noun

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

Usage notes

• See usage note at commit suicide

Synonyms

• self-killing, self-murder, self-slaughter, self-slaying

• See also kill

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• autodarwinate, top oneself, commit suicide, do oneself in, self-kill

• (to put to death): see kill, murder, disappear

• See also kill

Adjective

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