suicide

noun suicides

1. uncountable The act of intentionally killing oneself. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
2. countable A particular instance of a person intentionally killing oneself, or of multiple people doing so. There had been half a dozen mysterious suicides which had been investigated by Scotland Yard.
3. countable A person who has intentionally killed themself. "I remember one suicide," she said to Philip, "who threw himself into the Thames."

   Similar: an hero, autocide, self-killer, self-murderer, self-slayer, suicide, suicidee, suicider, suicidist

4. countable, figuratively, uncountable An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death may not be the aim of the action. political suicide
5. US, countable, slang A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain. 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

   Similar: graveyard, swamp water

6. countable, uncountable 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. countable, uncountable A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
9. attributive, countable, uncountable Pertaining to a suicide bombing. suicide belt

Similar: autohomicide, self-blood, self-deletion, self-killing, self-murder, self-slaughter, self-slaying, sewer slide, sillycide, suicism

verb suicides · suiciding · suicided

1. intransitive To intentionally kill oneself. "Her husband suicided three years ago. Just like a man!"

   Similar: an hero, catch the bus, commit hara-kiri, commit seppuku, commit sudoku, end one's life, kill oneself, off oneself, rope, ropemaxx, self-delete, self-kill

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). 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
3. ambitransitive, figuratively To destroy or self-destruct. 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 a