English Explanatory Dictionary

suicide

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of intentionally killing oneself.
  2. A particular instance of a person intentionally killing oneself, or of multiple people doing so.
  3. A person who has intentionally killed themself.
  4. An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death is not the aim of the action.
  5. A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
  9. Pertaining to a suicide bombing.
verb
  1. To intentionally kill oneself.
  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).
  3. To destroy or self-destruct.

Pronunciation

/ˈs(j)uːɪˌsaɪd/ /ˈsuɪˌsaɪd/ /ˌsuːɪˈsaɪd/ /ˈswisaɪd/ /s(j)u.saiɖ/ /sʊˈsaiɖ/ /s(j)ʊwɪˈsaiɖ/ En-uk-suicide.ogg En US Suicide.wav

Word forms

suicide suicides suiciding suicided

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.

Synonyms

autohomicide self-blood self-deletion self-killing self-murder self-slaughter self-slaying sewer slide sillycide suicism an hero autocide self-killer self-murderer self-slayer suicide suicidee suicider suicidist graveyard swamp water catch the bus commit hara-kiri commit seppuku commit sudoku end one's life kill oneself off oneself rope ropemaxx self-delete self-kill take one's own life top oneself

Related words

filicide fratricide herbicide infanticide insecticide matricide neonaticide parricide patricide pesticide regicide sororicide suicidee commit suicide dodgeball tag 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 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

Translations

Abkhaz: аҽшьра́ Afrikaans: selfmoord Afrikaans: selfdood Albanian: vetëvrasje Amharic: ራስን መግደል Arabic: اِنْتِحَار Armenian: ինքնասպանություն Assamese: আত্মহত্যা Asturian: suicidiu Azerbaijani: intihar Azerbaijani: özünü öldürmə Basque: suizidio Belarusian: самагу́бства Belarusian: самазабо́йства Belarusian: суіцы́д Bengali: আত্মহত্যা Bengali: খোদকুশী Bulgarian: самоуби́йство Burmese: ကိုယ်ကိုသတ်ခြင်း Catalan: suïcidi Chinese Cantonese: 自殺 /自杀 Eastern Min Chinese: 自殺 /自杀 Hakka Chinese: 自殺 /自杀 Chinese: 自殺 /自杀 Jin Chinese: 自殺 /自杀 Chinese Mandarin: 自殺 /自杀 Wu Chinese: 自殺 /自杀 Czech: sebevražda Danish: selvmord Dutch: zelfmoord Dutch: zelfdoding Esperanto: sinmortigo Esperanto: memmortigo Estonian: enesetapp Finnish: itsemurha French: suicide Friulian: suicidi Galician: suicidio Georgian: თვითმკვლელობა German: Suizid German: Freitod German: Selbstmord Greek: αυτοκτονία Greek: αυτοχειρία Hebrew: הִתְאַבְּדוּת Hindi: आत्महत्या Hindi: आत्मघात Hindi: खुदकुशी Hindi: ख़ुद-कुशी Hindi: स्वहंता Hindi: आत्महिंसा Hindi: ख़ुदकुशी Hungarian: öngyilkosság Icelandic: sjálfsmorð Icelandic: sjálfsvíg Ido: su-ocido Ilocano: ᜉᜈᜄ᜔ᜉᜃᜋᜆᜌ᜔
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