ASSISTED SUICIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assisted suicide mean? 

• ASSISTED SUICIDE (noun)
  The noun ASSISTED SUICIDE has 1 sense:

1. suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible

  Familiarity information: ASSISTED SUICIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSISTED SUICIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("assisted suicide" is a kind of...):

self-annihilation; self-destruction; suicide (the act of killing yourself)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "assisted suicide"):

physician-assisted suicide (assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician)