Suicide

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  • noun. The act or an instance of intentionally killing oneself.
  • noun. The destruction or ruin of one's own interests.
  • noun. One who commits suicide.
  • intransitive verb. To kill oneself; commit suicide.
  • adjective. Relating to, involving, or resulting in one's voluntary death.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of designedly destroying one's own life.
  • noun. Figuratively, destruction of one's own interests or aims.
  • noun. One who commits suicide; at common law, one who, being of the years of discretion and of sound mind, destroys himself.
  • To be guilty of suicide.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.
  • noun. Ruin of one's own interests.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Intentional killing of oneself, as a kind of action or social phenomenon.
  • noun. A particular instance of a person intentionally killing himself or herself, or of multiple people doing so.
  • noun. A person who has intentionally killed him/herself.
  • noun. An action which could have the literal or figurative death of a person or organization as its consequence, although death is not the aim of the action.
  • noun. A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • verb. To kill oneself intentionally.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a person who kills himself intentionally
  • noun. the act of killing yourself
  • Word Usage
    "Dr. GOULD: If the first suicide is a public suicide� TRUDEAU: That is if the first suicide gets media attention."
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