SUICIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suicide mean? 

• SUICIDE (noun)
  The noun SUICIDE has 2 senses:

1. the act of killing yourself

2. a person who kills himself intentionally

  Familiarity information: SUICIDE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUICIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of killing yourself

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

self-annihilation; self-destruction; suicide

Context example:

it is a crime to commit suicide

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

felo-de-se; suicide

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

killer; slayer (someone who causes the death of a person or animal)

 Context examples 

Ganciclovir, a prodrug, is readily phosphorylated by the suicide gene HSV-TK within HSV-TK-transduced lymphocytes to its monophosphate form and, subsequently, converted into its active triphosphate form, which specifically kills HSV-TK- transduced donor lymphocytes.

(HSV-TK-Transduced Donor Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

And then, why fled? and how? and in that case, can we venture to declare this suicide?

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Do you think it points to suicide?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is no suicide, Mr. Lanner.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A person with BPD who is diagnosed with cancer may be at an increased risk of suicide.

(Borderline personality disorder, NCI Dictionary)

Then his own death was suicide!

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The scientists exposed colorectal cancer cells to the 'lowest therapeutically effective dose of βGBP that induces apoptosis', or 'cell suicide'.

(Molecule in Immune System Able to Trigger 'Suicide' of Cancerous Tumors, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

God did not give me my life to throw away; and to do as you wish me would, I begin to think, be almost equivalent to committing suicide.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Since unlike normal tissues, solid tumors frequently have regions of hypoxia, suicide genes controlled by hypoxia-responsive elements may provide a means for cancer-specific gene therapy.

(Hypoxia-Responsive Elements, NCI Thesaurus)

It is my favourite seat, and I cannot leave it; and now I find I must go on sitting over the grave of a suicide.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)