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Suicide

Suicide Meaning & Definition
Suicide Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Suicide?

[n] the act of killing yourself
[n] a person who kills himself intentionally

Synonyms | Synonyms for Suicide: felo-de-se | self-annihilation | self-destruction

Related Terms | Find terms related to Suicide:

See Also | assisted suicide | felo-de-se | harakiri | hara-kiri | harikari | kill | killer | killing | putting to death | slayer | suttee

Suicide In Webster's Dictionary

\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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