Suicide
['s(j)uːɪsaɪd] or ['suɪsaɪd]
Definition
(noun.) the act of killing yourself; 'it is a crime to commit suicide'.
(noun.) a person who kills himself intentionally.
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Definition
(adv.) 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.
(adv.) One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.
(adv.) Ruin of one's own interests.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Self-murder, self-slaughter, self-homicide.[2]. Self-murderer, FELO DE SE.
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Definition
n. one who dies by his own hand: self-murder.—adj. Sūicī′dal pertaining to or partaking of the crime of suicide.—adv. Sūicī′dally.—n. Su′icidism a tendency towards suicide.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To commit suicide in a dream, foretells that misfortune will hang heavily over you. To see or hear others committing this deed, foretells that the failure of others will affect your interests. For a young woman to dream that her lover commits suicide, her disappointment by the faithlessness of her lover is accentuated.
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Examples
- A mere suicide would not have caused him to send for me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Commit suicide? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- If you think you have any evidence to lead you to the conclusion that he committed suicide, you will come to that conclusion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- For a moment it had a suspicious look of suicide, arranged to counterfeit accident. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I know I should, Miss cried, who had nevertheless gone through one or two affairs of the heart without any idea of suicide. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Possibly an accident, possibly--I only breathe it among ourselves--a suicide. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- There is a law against suicide. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Invention after invention has followed in such rapid succession, even to the last years of the Nineteenth Century, until war now assumes the conditions of suicide and annihilation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He committed suicide in 1774. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At that moment, suicide seemed easier. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You have ended by bringing about the death of a noble man and driving his wife to suicide. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Let me have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and the date of his supposed suicide. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- You see that even a villain and murderer can inspire such affection that his brother turns to suicide when he learns that his neck is forfeited. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- There is something to be said for the theory of suicide which you have put forward. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- That nice young person who began life with a forgery, and ended it by a suicide--your dear, romantic, interesting Chatterton. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He poured out enough to kill two men, when I told him that we didn't keep a hotel for suicides, and he had better cut the quantity down. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It's about five in the morning, you know, that suicides are most common. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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