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Suicide   /sˈuəsˌaɪd/  /sˈuɪsˌaɪd/   Listen
noun
Suicide  n.  
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.
2.
One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.
3.
Ruin of one's own interests. "Intestine war, which may be justly called political suicide."





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"Suicide" Quotes from Famous Books



... down the line traced in the air by the ball, he saw that Tug had misjudged it. But for once science meant suicide; for though Tug struck wildly, the ball condescendingly curved down and fell full and fair upon the bat, and danced off again over the first baseman's head and toward the feet of the right-fielder. This worthy player ran swiftly for it and bent forward, but ...
— The Dozen from Lakerim • Rupert Hughes
... bride To silent laughter goaded, Until he talked of suicide, And then the girl exploded! "You make me laugh, and so," she said, "I'll marry you next season." (Not half the people who are wed Have half ...
— Grimm Tales Made Gay • Guy Wetmore Carryl
... of the Vampire is hidden in obscurity. In modern times it has generally been a wizard, or a witch, or a suicide,[421] or a person who has come to a violent end, or who has been cursed by the Church or by his parents, who takes such an unpleasant means of recalling himself to the memory of his surviving relatives and acquaintances. But even the most honorable dead may become vampires ...
— Russian Fairy Tales - A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore • W. R. S. Ralston
... have bred that anachronic spectre. The sight, however, is one to make our squatting imps in circle grow restless on their haunches, as they bend eyes instantly, ears at full cock, for the commencement of the comic drama of the suicide. If this line of verse be not yet ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... interrogatory replies might have proved dampening to some narrators. Not so with Mr. Hagan. He nodded his head, then he asserted briefly. "But as a matter of fact the Ray woman committed suicide." ...
— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck


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