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su⋅i⋅cide
[soo-uh-sahyd] 
noun, verb, -cid⋅ed, -cid⋅ing.–noun
| 1. | the intentional taking of one's own life. |
| 2. | destruction of one's own interests or prospects: Buying that house was financial suicide. |
| 3. | a person who intentionally takes his or her own life. |
–verb (used without object)
| 4. | to commit suicide. |
–verb (used with object)
| 5. | to kill (oneself). |
Origin:
1645–55; < NL suīcīdium, -cīda, equiv. to L suī of oneself, gen. sing. of reflexive pron. + -cīdium, -cīda -cide
1645–55; < NL suīcīdium, -cīda, equiv. to L suī of oneself, gen. sing. of reflexive pron. + -cīdium, -cīda -cide
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| su·i·cide (sōō'ĭ-sīd') n.
[Latin suī, of oneself; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots + -cide.] |
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Suicide
Su"i*cide\, n. [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.
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Language Translation for : suicide
Spanish:
suicidio,
German:
der Selbstmord,
Japanese:
自殺
suicide
"deliberate killing of oneself," 1651, from Mod.L. suicidium "suicide," from L. sui "of oneself" (gen. of se "self"), from PIE *s(u)w-o- "one's own," from base *s(w)e- (see idiom) + -cidium "a killing." Probably an Eng. coinage; much maligned by Latin purists because it "may as well seem to participate of sus, a sow, as of the pronoun sui" [Phillips]. The meaning "person who kills himself deliberately" is from 1728. In Anglo-L., the term for "one who commits suicide" was felo-de-se, lit. "one guilty concerning himself."
"November, the suicide season." [Samuel Foote, "The Bankrupt," 1773]In England, suicides were legally criminal if sane, but not if judged to have been mentally deranged. The criminal ones were given degrading burial in roadways until 1823. Suicidal is from 1777. Suicide blonde first attested 1942. Baseball suicide squeeze is attested from 1955.
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Main Entry: 1sui·cide
Pronunciation: 'sü-&-"sId
Function: noun
1 : the act or an instance of taking one's own lifevoluntarily and intentionally
2 : a person who commits or attempts suicide
Main Entry: 2suicide
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: sui·cid·ed; sui·cid·ing
intransitive senses
: tocommit suicide suicide transitive senses
: to put (oneself) to death
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suicide su·i·cide (s&oomacr;'ĭ-sīd')
n.
- The act or an instance of intentionally killing oneself.
- One who commits suicide.
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