Lexic.us

Definition of Suicide

1. Noun. The act of killing yourself. "It is a crime to commit suicide"

Definition of Suicide

1. n. 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.

Definition of Suicide

1. Noun. Intentional killing of oneself, as a kind of action or social phenomenon. ¹

2. Noun. A particular instance of a person intentionally killing himself or herself, or of multiple people doing so. ¹

3. Noun. A person who has intentionally killed him/herself. ¹

4. Noun. (figuratively) An action that creates serious difficulty for its performer. ¹

5. Noun. A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain. ¹

6. Noun. 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. ¹

7. Noun. 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. ¹

8. Verb. (intransitive) To kill oneself intentionally. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Suicide

1. to kill oneself intentionally [v -CIDED, -CIDING, -CIDES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suicide

Literary usage of Suicide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"suicide, the act of intentionally destroying one's own life, whether sane or insane — the act in itself, accompanied by the purpose, is suicide; ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"application for the policy; while, if he committed the same act while insane, and therefore irresponsible, the statute would templated suicide at the time ..."

3. Ill-Equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness by Sasha Abramsky (2003)
"Young men, persons with mental illness, alcohol and drug addicts, and people who are in custody, are amongst the most at-risk groups for suicide.605 Given ..."

4. Handbook of the Law of Insurance by William Reynolds Vance (1904)
"A mere exception of death by suicide is construed to include only cases of ... SANE OR INSANE—When the policy excludes death by suicide, sane or insane, ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"suicide: The intentional killing of oneself, the term excluding both the shortening of life by excess or recklessness, and self-sacrifice, or the surrender ..."

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