SUICIDES

Noun

suicides

plural of suicide

Verb

suicides

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of suicide

Source: Wiktionary


SUICIDE

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



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