suicide

1651, New Latin coinage (probably originating in English) suīcīda, suīcīdium, from Latin suī (from suus (“one’s own”)) + Latin -cīda (“one who kills”). Compare self-slaughter, self-blood. Equivalent to +‎ -cide.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈs(j)uːɪˌsaɪd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈs(j)uɪˌsaɪd/

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suicide (countable and uncountable, plural suicides)

1. (uncountable) Intentional killing of oneself.
   • 1904, Harold MacGrath, The Man On The Box, ch. 22:

     The cowardice of suicide was abhorrent to him.

   • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian‎:

     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. The UK government will come under pressure to block access to pornographic websites this year when a committee of MPs publishes its report on protecting children online.

2. (countable) A particular instance of a person intentionally killing himself or herself, or of multiple people doing so.
   • 1919, Edgar Wallace, The Secret House, ch. 14:

     There had been half a dozen mysterious suicides which had been investigated by Scotland Yard.

   • 1999, Philip H. Melling, Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 192:

     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’.

3. (countable) A person who has intentionally killed him/herself.
   • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, ch. 95:

     "I remember one suicide," she said to Philip, "who threw himself into the Thames."

4. (figuratively) An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death is not the aim of the action.
   • 1959, Everett Dirksen, in the Congressional Record, Feb. 9, page 2100:

     […] I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

   • 2000, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, The Ice Limit →ISBN:

     “Mr. Glinn,” said Britton, “it's suicide to take a huge ship like this past the Ice Limit. Especially in this weather.”

   • 2004, Robert D. Lock, Job Search: Career Planning Guide →ISBN, page 24:

     […] it's suicide to change jobs in mid-career.

5. (countable) A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
   • 1994, Christopher Buckley, Cruising State: Growing Up in Southern California, University of Nevada Press, →ISBN, page 34:

     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.

   • 2000, Mark Pendergrast, For God, Country and Coca-Cola, Basic Books, →ISBN, page 15:

     Using Coca-Cola as a base, a suicide called for the addition of every other flavor available.

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. (countable) 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.

   The coach makes us run suicides at the end of each basketball practice.

8. A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
9. (attributive) pertaining to a suicide bombing; as suicide belt, suicide vest

• See usage note at commit suicide

• self-killing, self-murder, self-slaughter, self-slaying, self-kill, dispatch, murder, slaughter
• self-killed, self-murdered, self-slaughtered, self-slayed, topped oneself, commited suicide, done oneself in, self-killed
• See also Thesaurus:kill

• (children's game): dodgeball, tag

suicide (third-person singular simple present suicides, present participle suiciding, simple past and past participle suicided)

1. (intransitive) To kill oneself intentionally.
   • 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, ch. 11:

     "Her husband suicided three years ago. Just like a man!"

   • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, page 136:

     Seems a lady poet suicided at Verringer's ranch in Sepulveda canyon one time.

2. (transitive) To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide (now especially as part of a conspiracy).
   • 1898 October 29, in Punch, or the London charivari, page 196:

     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."

   • 2011, Tobias Jones, White Death →ISBN, page 273:

     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.

3. To self-destruct.
   • 1957, The Institute of Mineral Industries, Proceedings - Issues 181-182, page 315:

     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.

   • 2006, Ugliness?: Destroying a Country, →ISBN:

     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;

   • 2010, Martin H. Greenberg, The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse, →ISBN, page 189:

     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.

• autodarwinate, top oneself, commit suicide, do oneself in, self-kill
• (to put to death): see kill, murder
• See also Thesaurus:kill

• hara-kiri
• kamikaze
• seppuku

Before the 1700s called homicide de soi-même; see above.

• IPA^(key): /sɥi.sid/

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suicide m (plural suicides)

1. suicide

• attentat-suicide
• suicidabilité
• suicidaire
• suicidalité
• suicide assisté
• suicider

suicide

1. inflection of suicider:
   1. first- and third-person singular present indicative and subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “suicide” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• Rhymes: -ide

suicide f pl

1. feminine plural of suicida

suicide f pl

1. plural of suicida

• sudicie

Borrowed from English suicide.

suicide m (plural suicides)

1. (Jersey) suicide

suicide

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of suicidar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of suicidar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of suicidar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of suicidar

suicide

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of suicidar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of suicidar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of suicidar.