suicide

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: su=i=cide

CIDE DICTIONARY

suicide, n. [L. sui of one's self (akin to suus one's own) + caedere to slay, to kill. Cf. So, adv., Homicide.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.  [1913 Webster]
•  Ruin of one's own interests.  V. Knox.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

suicide, n. & v.
--n.
1 a the intentional killing of oneself. b a person who commits suicide.
2 a self-destructive action or course (political suicide).
3 (attrib.) Mil. designating a highly dangerous or deliberately suicidal operation etc. (a suicide mission).
--v.intr. commit suicide.

Idiom

suicide pact an agreement between two or more people to commit suicide together.

Etymology

mod.L suicida, suicidium f. L sui of oneself

THESAURUS

suicide

aborticide, car of Jagannath, disembowelment, felo-de-se, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, hara-kiri, herbicide, homicide, infanticide, insecticide, mass suicide, matricide, microbicide, parricide, patricide, pesticide, regicide, ritual suicide, rodenticide, self-destruction, self-immolation, self-murder, self-sacrifice, seppuku, sororicide, suttee, sutteeism, uxoricide, vermicide

ROGET THESAURUS

suicide

Killing

N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.