[syn: suicide, felo-de-se]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Suicide \Su"i*cide\, n. [L. sui of one's self (akin to suus
one's own) + caedere to slay, to kill. Cf. So, adv.,
Homicide.]
1. 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.
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2. One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.
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3. Ruin of one's own interests. "Intestine war, which may be
justly called political suicide." --V. Knox.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
suicide
n 1: the act of killing yourself; "it is a crime to commit
suicide" [syn: suicide, self-destruction, self-
annihilation]
2: a person who kills himself intentionally [syn: suicide,
felo-de-se]