COMMIT SUICIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commit suicide mean? 

• COMMIT SUICIDE (verb)
  The verb COMMIT SUICIDE has 1 sense:

1. kill oneself

  Familiarity information: COMMIT SUICIDE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMIT SUICIDE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Kill oneself

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

the terminally ill patient committed suicide

Hypernyms (to "commit suicide" is one way to...):

kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

"But no fool dog ought to be fool enough to go off an' commit suicide that way."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Do you want to commit suicide?

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)