'Suicide' definitions:
Definition of 'suicide'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of killing yourself; "it is a crime to commit suicide" [syn: suicide, self-destruction, self- annihilation]
noun
A person who kills himself intentionally [syn: suicide, felo-de-se]
Definition of 'Suicide'
From: GCIDE
- Suicide \Su"i*cide\, n. [L. sui of one's self (akin to suus one's own) + caedere to slay, to kill. Cf. So, adv., Homicide.]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Ruin of one's own interests. "Intestine war, which may be justly called political suicide." --V. Knox. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'suicide'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aborticide,
- car of Jagannath,
- disembowelment,
- felo-de-se,
- fratricide,
- fungicide,
- genocide,
- germicide,
- hara-kiri,
- herbicide,
- homicide,
- infanticide,
- insecticide,
- mass suicide,
- matricide,
- microbicide,
- parricide,
- patricide,
- pesticide,
- regicide,
- ritual suicide,
- rodenticide,
- self-destruction,
- self-immolation,
- self-murder,
- self-sacrifice,
- seppuku,
- sororicide,
- suttee,
- sutteeism,
- uxoricide,
- vermicide