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SUICIDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of killing yourself
Example:
it is a crime to commit suicide
Synonyms:
self-annihilation; self-destruction; suicide
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("suicide" is a kind of...):
kill; killing; putting to death (the act of terminating a life)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "suicide"):
assisted suicide (suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible)
felo-de-se (an act of deliberate self destruction)
hara-kiri; harakiri; harikari; seppuku (ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society)
suttee (the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband)
Derivation:
suicidal (dangerous to yourself or your interests)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person who kills himself intentionally
Synonyms:
felo-de-se; suicide
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("suicide" is a kind of...):
killer; slayer (someone who causes the death of a person or animal)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb suicide
Context examples:
He or she may withdraw, think of suicide or become violent.
(Child Abuse, NIH)
For those who presented with suicidal ideation, the suicide rate was approximately 31 times higher than among Californians overall.
(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)
The expressed CD34 moiety of the chimeric suicide gene serves as a selection marker; mutant 75 of HSV-TK confers increased GCV sensitivity.
(CD34/TK75 Retroviral Vector-Transduced Donor Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)
It is being investigated for use in targeting tumors for death by a suicide mechanism.
(Adenovirus Death Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
The researchers found that, months after treatment, nine children (roughly 6 percent) had thoughts of suicide and experienced outbursts of anger and rage, depression, irritability and anxiety.
(Children with Cushing syndrome may have higher suicide risk, NIH)
Donor T-lymphocytes are transduced with a retroviral vector (BPZ-1001) encoding the inducible suicide gene caspase 9 (iCasp9) and linked to a drug binding domain.
(Allogeneic T-Lymphocytes BPX-501, NCI Thesaurus)
The disquisitions upon death and suicide were calculated to fill me with wonder.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
If not treated, bipolar disorder can lead to damaged relationships, poor job or school performance, and even suicide.
(Bipolar Disorder, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)
Other symptoms of depression include feelings of worthlessness and hopelessness, loss of pleasure in activities, changes in eating or sleeping habits, and thoughts of death or suicide.
(Depression, NCI Dictionary)
You have ended by bringing about the death of a noble man and driving his wife to suicide.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
