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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SU'ICIDE, n. [L. suicidium; se and coedo, to slay.]
1. Self-murder; the act of designedly destroying one's own life. To constitute suicide, the person must be of years of discretion and of sound mind.
2. One guilty of self-murder; a felo de se.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of killing yourself; "it is a crime to commit suicide" [syn: suicide, self-destruction, self- annihilation]
2: a person who kills himself intentionally [syn: suicide, felo-de-se]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Latin sui (genitive) of oneself + English -cide; akin to Old English & Old High German s?n his, Latin suus one's own, sed, se without, Sanskrit sva oneself, one's own Date: 1643 1. a. the act or an instance of taking one's own life voluntarily and intentionally especially by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind b. ruin of one's own interests <political suicide> c. apoptosis <cell suicide> 2. one that commits or attempts suicide II. adjective Date: 1773 of or relating to suicide; especially being or performing a deliberate act resulting in the voluntary death of the person who does it <a suicide mission> <a suicide bomber> III. verb (suicided; suiciding) Date: 1841 intransitive verb to commit suicide transitive verb to put (oneself) to death

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a the intentional killing of oneself. b a person who commits suicide. 2 a self-destructive action or course (political suicide). 3 (attrib.) Mil. designating a highly dangerous or deliberately suicidal operation etc. (a suicide mission). --v.intr. commit suicide. Phrases and idioms: suicide pact an agreement between two or more people to commit suicide together. Etymology: mod.L suicida, suicidium f. L sui of oneself

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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.'' --V. Knox.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(suicides) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. People who commit suicide deliberately kill themselves because they do not want to continue living. She tried to commit suicide on several occasions. ...a growing number of suicides in the community. N-VAR 2. You say that people commit suicide when they deliberately do something which ruins their career or position in society. They say it would be political suicide for the party to abstain. N-UNCOUNT: supp N 3. The people involved in a suicide attack, mission, or bombing do not expect to survive. According to the army, the teenager said he was on a 'suicide mission' for the movement. ...a suicide bomber. ADJ: ADJ n

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

su'-i-sid.

See CRIMES.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Self-murder, self-slaughter, self-homicide, self-destruction. 2. Self-murderer, felo de se.

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