Definition of SUICIDE

suicide

Meanings

Plural: suicides

Noun

  • the act of killing yourself
    • "it is a crime to commit suicide"
  • a person who kills himself intentionally
  • The act of intentionally killing oneself.
  • A particular instance of a person intentionally killing oneself, or of multiple people doing so.
  • A person who has intentionally killed themself.
  • An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death is not the aim of the action.
  • A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
  • Pertaining to a suicide bombing.

Verb

  • To intentionally kill oneself.
  • To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide (now especially as part of a conspiracy).
  • To self-destruct.

Origin / Etymology

First attested in Thomas Browne's Religio Medici (1643) in 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). 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

an hero, autohomicide, catch the bus, commit hara-kiri, commit seppuku, commit sudoku, end one's life, felo-de-se, graveyard, kill oneself, off oneself, ropemaxx, self-annihilation, self-blood, self-delete, self-deletion, self-destruction, self-kill, self-killer, self-killing, self-murder, self-murderer, self-slaughter, self-slayer, self-slaying, sewer slide, sillycide, suicide, suicider, swamp water, take one's own life, top oneself

Scrabble Score: 10

suicide is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
suicide is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
suicide is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

suicide is a valid Words With Friends word