suicide
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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.
Base: suī
Affixes: -cīdium
Inflected forms:
form: suicides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: suicides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: suiciding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: suicided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: suicided
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of intentionally killing oneself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
The cowardice of suicide was abhorrent to him.
I realize and I can see / That suicide is painless / It brings on many changes / And I can take or leave it if I please
Other global taboos, such as sex and suicide, manifest themselves widely online, with websites offering suicide guides and Hot XXX Action seconds away at the click of a button. […]
gloss: A particular instance of a person intentionally killing oneself, or of multiple people doing so.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: There had been half a dozen mysterious suicides which had been investigated by Scotland Yard.
In this way the Heaven's Gate community were not only escaping the threat of 'global destruction', they were hurling themselves directly into 'the lap of God', using their suicide as a way of 'bridging the chasm' between an earthly world which had no future and 'a thousand years of unmitigated peace'.
Prosser's focus on mental health in particular also led him to the (sometimes) life-threatening ways this can affect all of us, whether we work on the railway or not. In 2020-21, there were 247 suicides or suspected suicides on the national network - that's one every 35 hours.
gloss: A person who has intentionally killed themself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: "I remember one suicide," she said to Philip, "who threw himself into the Thames."
Poets have been ill-fated in Russia ever since the Revolution: Vladimir Mayakovsky and Sergei Esenin, among the two great poets of the Revolutionary era, were suicides; […]
Early in the film two boys are caught having sex […] and this exposure leads to suicide and much conversation. "It wasn't even with a man from this house," remarks one of the suicide's house fellows, and an off-camera matron immediately folds the dead lad's mattress.
gloss: An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death may not be the aim of the action.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: political suicide
[…] I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
"Mr. Glinn," said Britton, "it's suicide to take a huge ship like this past the Ice Limit. Especially in this weather."
[…] it's suicide to change jobs in mid-career.
Miranda: No good. Both routes are blocked. See these doors? The only way past is to get someone to open them from the other side. / Shepard: It's not a fortress; there's got to be something. Here, maybe we can send someone in through this ventilation shaft. / Jacob: Practically a suicide mission. I volunteer. / Miranda: I appreciate the thought, Jacob, but you couldn't shut down the security systems in time. We need to send a tech expert.
Italian communism and those on its left had committed political suicide.
Amidst all the chaos, Großer Kurfürst slows up and strikes her colors, her crew having had enough, and have^([sic]) overpowered the officers - willing to fight, but not willing to commit suicide.
He did not mention that Trump is about as popular with the British public as drug-resistant syphilis and that it would be political suicide to bribe him with cash out of the public fisc.
gloss: A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
examples: 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.
Using Coca-Cola as a base, a suicide called for the addition of every other flavor available.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The coach makes us run suicides at the end of each basketball practice.
gloss: A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Pertaining to a suicide bombing.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
uncountable
examples: suicide belt
suicide vest
gloss: To intentionally kill oneself.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "Her husband suicided three years ago. Just like a man!"
Seems a lady poet suicided at Verringer's ranch in Sepulveda canyon one time.
gloss: To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide (now especially as part of a conspiracy).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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."
Even if he did get charged, he would be suicided long before he could involve one of the city's most important politicians in the scam.
Gelli also expressed skepticism about Calvi's ability to climb out over the scaffolding in his leather-soled city shoes. 'I think they suicided him.
gloss: To destroy or self-destruct.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
figuratively
examples: 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.
The problem is that the degradation of our common space requires a complete social transformation, because it's a part of Galician society's general degradation, a society demographically declining — demographically suiciding, as it were — with inactive employers and intellectual elites comfortably disconnected from real life;
Here in America we just called them survivors, after the Chinese suicided their psychotic society in the seventies, and destroyed most of urban America in the process.
Synonyms: autohomicide
self-blood
self-deletion
self-killing
self-murder
self-slaughter
self-slaying
sewer slide
sillycide
suicism
Related words: filicide
fratricide
herbicide
infanticide
insecticide
matricide
neonaticide
parricide
patricide
pesticide
regicide
sororicide
suicidee
commit suicide
hara-kiri
kamikaze
seppuku
Derived words: antisuicide
assisted suicide
bullycide
career suicide
commit suicide
cybersuicide
desuicide
double suicide
double-suicide
ethnosuicide
infinite suicide
mass suicide
medicide
murder by suicide
murdercide
murder-suicide
nonsuicide
parasuicide
postsuicide
presuicide
professional suicide
prosuicide
pseudocide
pseudosuicide
quantum suicide
race suicide
Samsonic suicide
sewer slide
sillycide
suicidal
suicide ant
suicide attack
suicide attacker
suicide bag
suicide baiting
suicide battery
suicide bomb
suicide bomber
suicide bombing
suicide booth
suicide burn
suicide by cop
suicide cable
suicide club
suicide cluster
suicide contagion
suicide cord
suicide cult
suicide disease
suicide door
suicide drone
suicidee
suicide gene
suicide gown
suicide grip
suicide headache
suicide jockey
suicide king
suicide kit
suicide knob
suicide lane
suicide letter
suicidelike
suicide mission
suicide net
suicide note
suicide pact
suicide pass
suicide seed
suicide shower
suicide special
suicide squad
suicide squeeze
Suicide Sunday
suicide suspension
suicide tourism
suicide tourist
suicide tree
suicide Tuesday
suicide victim
suicide watch
suicidical
suicidism
suicidist
suicidogenic
suicidology
suifuel
unassisted suicide
zooicide
Translations:
lang: Abkhaz
word: аҽшьра́
roman: aĉšrá
lang: Afrikaans
word: selfmoord
lang: Afrikaans
word: selfdood
lang: Albanian
word: vetëvrasje
lang: Amharic
word: ራስን መግደል
roman: rasn mägdäl
lang: Arabic
word: اِنْتِحَار
roman: intiḥār
lang: Armenian
word: ինքնասպանություն
roman: inkʻnaspanutʻyun
lang: Assamese
word: আত্মহত্যা
roman: atmohoitta
lang: Asturian
word: suicidiu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: intihar
lang: Azerbaijani
word: özünü öldürmə
lang: Basque
word: suizidio
lang: Belarusian
word: самагу́бства
roman: samahúbstva
lang: Belarusian
word: самазабо́йства
roman: samazabójstva
lang: Belarusian
word: суіцы́д
roman: suicýd
lang: Bengali
word: আত্মহত্যা
roman: attohotta
lang: Bengali
word: খোদকুশী
roman: khōdkuśi
lang: Bulgarian
word: самоуби́йство
roman: samoubíjstvo
lang: Burmese
word: ကိုယ်ကိုသတ်ခြင်း
roman: kuiykuisathkrang:
lang: Catalan
word: suïcidi
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 自殺 /自杀
roman: zi⁶ saat³
lang: Eastern Min Chinese
word: 自殺 /自杀
roman: cê̤ṳ-sák
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 自殺 /自杀
roman: chhṳ-sat
lang: Chinese
word: 自殺 /自杀
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Jin Chinese
word: 自殺 /自杀
roman: zi³ sah⁴
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 自殺 /自杀
roman: zìshā
lang: Wu Chinese
word: 自殺 /自杀
lang: Czech
word: sebevražda
lang: Danish
word: selvmord
lang: Dutch
word: zelfmoord
lang: Dutch
word: zelfdoding
lang: Esperanto
word: sinmortigo
lang: Esperanto
word: memmortigo
lang: Estonian
word: enesetapp
lang: Faroese
word: sjálvmorð
lang: Finnish
word: itsemurha
lang: French
word: suicide
lang: Friulian
word: suicidi
lang: Galician
word: suicidio
lang: Georgian
word: თვითმკვლელობა
roman: tvitmḳvleloba
lang: German
word: Suizid
lang: German
word: Freitod
lang: German
word: Selbstmord
lang: Greek
word: αυτοκτονία
roman: aftoktonía
lang: Greek
word: αυτοχειρία
roman: aftocheiría
lang: Hebrew
word: הִתְאַבְּדוּת
roman: hit'abdút
lang: Hindi
word: आत्महत्या
roman: ātmahatyā
lang: Hindi
word: आत्मघात
roman: ātmaghāt
lang: Hindi
word: आत्मवध
roman: ātmavadh
lang: Hindi
word: खुदकुशी
roman: khudkuśī
lang: Hindi
word: ख़ुद-कुशी
roman: xud-kuśī
lang: Hindi
word: स्वहंता
roman: svahantā
lang: Hindi
word: आत्महिंसा
roman: ātmahinsā
lang: Hindi
word: ख़ुदकुशी
roman: xudkuśī
lang: Hungarian
word: öngyilkosság
lang: Icelandic
word: sjálfsmorð
lang: Icelandic
word: sjálfsvíg
lang: Ido
word: su-ocido
lang: Ilocano
word: ᜉᜈᜄ᜔ᜉᜃᜋᜆᜌ᜔
roman: panagpakamatay
lang: Indonesian
word: bunuh diri
lang: Irish
word: féinmharú
lang: Italian
word: suicidio
lang: Japanese
word: 自殺
roman: jisatsu
lang: Japanese
word: 自害
roman: jigai
lang: Japanese
word: 自決
roman: jiketsu
lang: Kannada
word: ಆತ್ಮಹತ್ಯೆ
roman: ātmahatye
lang: Kazakh
word: өзін-өзі өлтіру
roman: özın-özı öltıru
lang: Kazakh
word: өзін-өзі қол жұмсау
roman: özın-özı qol jūmsau
lang: Khmer
word: សម្លាប់ខ្លួនឯង
roman: sɑmlap khluən ʼaeng
lang: Khmer
word: អត្តឃាត
roman: ʼattaʼkhiət
lang: Korean
word: 자살
roman: jasal
lang: Korean
word: 자결
roman: jagyeol
lang: Korean
word: 극단적 선택
roman: geukdanjeok seontaek
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: întixar
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: xwekujî
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: xwekuştin
lang: Kyrgyz
word: өзүн өзү өлтүрүү
roman: özün özü öltürüü
lang: Lao
word: ການຂ້າຕົວຕາຍ
roman: kān khā tūa tāi
lang: Lao
word: ອັດຕະວິນິບາດກຳ
roman: ʼat ta wi ni bāt kam
lang: Latin
word: mors voluntāria
lang: Latin
word: suīcīdium
lang: Latvian
word: pašnāvība
lang: Lithuanian
word: savižudybė
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Suicide
lang: Macedonian
word: самоубиство
roman: samoubistvo
lang: Macedonian
word: суици́д
roman: suicíd
lang: Malay
word: bunuh diri
lang: Malayalam
word: ആത്മഹത്യ
roman: ātmahatya
lang: Manx
word: hene-varroo
lang: Māori
word: mate whakamomori
lang: Māori
word: whakamomori
lang: Marathi
word: आत्महत्या
roman: ātmahatyā
lang: Mongolian
word: амиа хорлох
roman: amia xorlox
lang: Nepali
word: आत्महत्या
roman: ātmahatyā
lang: Norman
word: suicide
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: selvmord
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: sjølvmord
lang: Old English
word: selfcwalu
lang: Ossetian
word: хиамарын
roman: xiamaryn
lang: Pacoh
word: dyáq
lang: Pashto
word: انتحار
roman: entehār
lang: Persian
word: خْوَدْکُشِی
roman: xwadkušī
lang: Persian
word: اِنْتِحَار
roman: intihār
lang: Dari
word: خوَدْکُشِی
roman: xudkušī
lang: Dari
word: اِنْتِحَار
roman: intihār
lang: Iranian Persian
word: خودْکُشی
roman: xodkoši
lang: Iranian Persian
word: اِنْتِحار
roman: entehâr
lang: Piedmontese
word: suissidi
lang: Polish
word: samobójstwo
lang: Portuguese
word: suicídio
lang: Romanian
word: sinucidere
lang: Russian
word: самоуби́йство
roman: samoubíjstvo
lang: Russian
word: суици́д
roman: suicíd
lang: Northern Sami
word: iešsorbmen
lang: Northern Sami
word: iešsoardin
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fèin-mhurt
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: самоу̀бо̄јство
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: самоуби́ство
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: суѝцӣд
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: samoùbōjstvo
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: samoubístvo
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sȕicīd
lang: Slovak
word: samovražda
lang: Slovene
word: samomor
lang: Spanish
word: suicidio
lang: Spanish
word: autolisis
lang: Swahili
word: jiua
lang: Swedish
word: självmord
lang: Tagalog
word: pagpapatiwakal
lang: Tagalog
word: pagpapakamatay
lang: Tajik
word: интиҳор
roman: intihor
lang: Tajik
word: худкушӣ
roman: xudkuši
lang: Tamil
word: தற்கொலை
roman: taṟkolai
lang: Telugu
word: ఆత్మహత్య
roman: ātmahatya
lang: Thai
word: การฆ่าตัวตาย
roman: gaan-kâa-dtuua-dtaai
lang: Thai
word: อัตวินิบาตกรรม
lang: Tibetan
word: རང་ཤི་རྒྱབ་པ
roman: rang shi rgyab pa
lang: Turkish
word: intihar
lang: Turkish
word: özkıyım
lang: Turkmen
word: özüni öldürme
lang: Ukrainian
word: самогу́бство
roman: samohúbstvo
lang: Ukrainian
word: суїци́д
roman: sujicýd
lang: Urdu
word: خُود کُشی
roman: xūd kuśī
lang: Urdu
word: خُودْکُشی
roman: xūdkuśī
lang: Urdu
word: اِنْتِحار
roman: intihār
lang: Urdu
word: اِنْتِہار
roman: intihār
lang: Uyghur
word: ئۆلۈۋېلىش
roman: ölüwëlish
lang: Uzbek
word: xudkushlik
lang: Uzbek
word: suitsid
lang: Uzbek
word: oʻzini oʻldirish
lang: Uzbek
word: oʻzini-oʻzi oʻldirish
lang: Vietnamese
word: tự sát
lang: Vietnamese
word: tự tử
lang: Volapük
word: oksasen
lang: Walloon
word: sucide
lang: Welsh
word: hunanladdiad
lang: Yiddish
word: אַליינמאָרד
roman: aleynmord
lang: Yiddish
word: זעלבסטמאָרד
roman: zelbstmord
lang: Zhuang
word: gaggaj
lang: Zulu
word: ukuzibulala