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Suicide
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- 1 The act of intentionally killing oneself. uncountable
"As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
- 2 the act of killing yourself wordnet
- 3 A particular instance of a person intentionally killing oneself, or of multiple people doing so. countable
"There had been half a dozen mysterious suicides which had been investigated by Scotland Yard."
- 4 a person who kills themself intentionally wordnet
- 5 A person who has intentionally killed themself. countable
""I remember one suicide," she said to Philip, "who threw himself into the Thames.""
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- 6 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, figuratively, uncountable
"political suicide"
- 7 A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain. US, countable, slang
"You could sit at a corner and order your Suicide, and one of two twin brothers who worked there would hold an old-fashioned soda glass, a heavy tall V-shaped one with a round foot at the bottom, and go down the line with one shot of everything—cherry, lemon, Coke, and chocolate syrups—before adding soda water."
- 8 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, uncountable
- 9 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. countable
"The coach makes us run suicides at the end of each basketball practice."
- 10 A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck. countable, uncountable
- 11 Pertaining to a suicide bombing. attributive, countable, uncountable
"suicide belt"
- 1 To intentionally kill oneself. intransitive
""Her husband suicided three years ago. Just like a man!""
- 2 To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide (now especially as part of a conspiracy). transitive
"Have bought The Shanghai Chopsticks. Proprietor at first refused to sell, but when I ordered the boiling oil he became more reasonable. Editor reports that circulation is not what it ought to be. […] Will publish proclaimation, "Any person found not in possession of The Shanghai Chopsticks (current number) will be suicided.""
- 3 To self-destruct.
"At the conclusion of each wind, the movement of the driver's control lever back to the neutral position, and consequently the movement of the Ward Leonard controller back to its neutral position, firstly opens the directional contacts which isolate the generator field from the Ward Leonard exciter and, secondly, operates contactors which eliminate the effect of the residual field by suiciding the generator field as outlined above."
Etymology
First attested in Thomas Browne's Religio Medici (1643) in noun sense 1, ostensibly from New Latin suīcīdium, from suī (genitive reflexive pronoun) + -cīdium (“act of killing or murder”), but often believed to have originated in English before entering Latin. Displaced native Middle English seolf-cwale from Old English selfcwalu (literally “self-slaughter”), after which suicide may have been modelled, or calqued (compare manuscript). Noun sense 3 is perhaps by analogy with words like homicide, patricide (see -cide), or, although unlikely, from Medieval Latin suīcīda; see the Etymology section at suīcīdium.
First attested in Thomas Browne's Religio Medici (1643) in noun sense 1, ostensibly from New Latin suīcīdium, from suī (genitive reflexive pronoun) + -cīdium (“act of killing or murder”), but often believed to have originated in English before entering Latin. Displaced native Middle English seolf-cwale from Old English selfcwalu (literally “self-slaughter”), after which suicide may have been modelled, or calqued (compare manuscript). Noun sense 3 is perhaps by analogy with words like homicide, patricide (see -cide), or, although unlikely, from Medieval Latin suīcīda; see the Etymology section at suīcīdium.
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