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suicidal
/ ˌsjuː-; ˌsuːɪˈsaɪdəl /
adjective
- involving, indicating, or tending towards suicide
- liable to result in suicide
a suicidal attempt
- liable to destroy one's own interests or prospects; dangerously rash
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Derived Forms
- ˌsuiˈcidally, adverb
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Other Words From
- sui·cidal·ly adverb
- pseudo·sui·cidal adjective
- unsu·i·cidal adjective
- unsu·i·cidal·ly adverb
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Example Sentences
In Swaziland, girls who experienced violence were also at greater risk for alcohol abuse, depression and suicidal thoughts.
After curing the elderly of their semi-suicidal depression, winning the White House must seem like a snap.
At Stanford, so the story goes, he talked a suicidal student down from a roof.
I was never suicidal, though depressed and cut off from myself.
Many were despondent or even suicidal when they first arrived.
In suicidal cases it is especially in the morning hours that patients need the closest surveillance.
I had doubted so many things, and now suddenly I doubted my unimportance, doubted my right to this suicidal abandonment.
And this assumption of "direction" is unconvincing, if not suicidal in character.
We may also, in this connexion, think of the seminal emissions sometimes observed in cases of suicidal hanging.
I told her all—my evil designs, the monetary speculations, my suicidal purposes, my moral cowardice.
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