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Definition of suicide in English:

suicide

noun ˈs(j)uːɪsʌɪdˈsuəˌsaɪd
mass noun
  • 1The action of killing oneself intentionally.

    自杀

    he committed suicide at the age of forty

    他40岁时自杀了。

    count noun drug-related suicides
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The story goes that the first forced marriage was carried out in the 1970s, after seven sisters, unmarried because of their poverty, committed suicide together.
    • Her father committed suicide, her mother attempted suicide and she is co-founder of the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention.
    • In Wilson College, Mumbai, an assistant librarian committed suicide because the college authorities had allegedly harassed her.
    • The depressive comic committed suicide in 1968, at the age of 44, but left behind a wealth of material that has continued to win fans with sketches such as The Blood Donor.
    • On another occasion during our two-year lease, a man who lived across the street committed suicide by jumping from what was a one-story building.
    • Over the past seven years, 92 people have committed suicide or died while attempting to avoid deportation.
    • None of their family members had attempted or committed suicide in the preceding year.
    • Eight anarchist trade unionists were arrested: four were hanged, one committed suicide in prison and the remaining three were eventually pardoned.
    • If they committed suicide we must know why they committed suicide, and if they were murdered we must know why.
    • The troubled woman committed suicide seven years ago.
    • Two alleged paedophiles, who lived opposite the proposed hostel in Fivefields Road, committed suicide on the day they were to supposed to stand trial at Winchester Crown Court.
    • What should you do if someone your child knows, perhaps a friend or a classmate, has attempted or committed suicide?
    • A woman whose husband committed suicide was one of those who contributed to a recent seminar on suicide held in Skreen.
    • The doomed King Charles I's surveyor, Abraham van der Doort, for instance, committed suicide after misplacing one of 3,000 miniatures.
    • The foundation said that this year several potato growers of Uttar Pradesh and other parts of the country committed suicide because of over-production and no buyers.
    • Most of the Jews inside decided they would rather die than surrender, and committed mass suicide.
    Synonyms
    self-destruction, taking one's own life, self-murder, self-slaughter, felo de se
    self-immolation
    Hinduism, historical suttee
    Japanese, historical hara-kiri, seppuku
    informal topping oneself, ending it all
    1. 1.1count noun A person who commits suicide.
      自杀者
      a stretch of the line popular with would-be suicides
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Jane Pennington died a suicide at the age of 48.
      • Many SIBs would previously have been recorded as would-be suicides.
      • After, on average, more than twenty-six years, ninety-four per cent of the would-be suicides were either still alive or had died of natural causes.
      • Over the years the Humber Bridge has built up an unenviable reputation for attracting would-be suicides.
      • A would-be suicide was talked out of hanging himself from a public bridge - only to be promptly charged with assault.
      • Other songs have ageing rockers dying unmourned and a would-be suicide weighing up the pro's and con's of life.
      • It could just be about the world's losers, the failed would-be suicides and all our broken hearts.
      • We drove across a bridge that's become so popular with suicides that the city is now encasing it with expensive, hideous jumper-proof wiring.
      • But in fact more than half have not been convicted of anything, and are placed here by social services because they are runaways, potentially violent, self-harmers or potential suicides.
      • The autonomy granted by decriminalising suicide and attempted suicide in section 1 enables a would-be suicide to change her mind and seek help without fear of prosecution.
      • Nor is it at all uncommon for suicides to work something from popular songs or books or films into their deaths.
    2. 1.2 A course of action which is disastrously damaging to oneself or one's interests.
      自杀性行为,自毁
      it would be political suicide to restrict criteria for unemployment benefit

      限制领取失业救济金的标准无异于政治自杀。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Of course all these men knew, as all modern presidential candidates know, that to admit to theological skepticism is political suicide.
      • But he's understandably not interested in committing career suicide.
      • Who will say ‘no’ when the consultants argue that it's political suicide not to say ‘yes’?
      • That, like the pacifist option, is the path of political suicide.
      • But in the current political climate, with the Feds handing out tax cuts, raising taxes is political suicide.
      • ‘They've just committed suicide,’ he said of the committee.
      • There was no question of sitting on the sidelines; a neither-nor alternative would be political suicide and a declaration of bankruptcy on a vital issue.
      • At least in the immediate aftermath of the election, the editors recognize that that position is political suicide.
      • Unfortunately, we haven't yet reached the point where that kind of bigotry is political suicide in this country.
      • It would be political suicide for your government.
      • Openness to a range of options becomes weakness, thinking things through is dithering and willingness to accept the idea that you might sometimes be wrong is political suicide.
      • Mould's no fool, mind you - to deny his past would be career suicide.
      • For any processor, being associated with an outbreak of foodborne illness is not only ethically damaging, but financial suicide.
      • This kind of behavior among liberals is called political suicide.
      • Given the state of the town's finances, a 60 per cent rise in allowances would not only have been immoral, but also political suicide.
      • Chirac would be risking political suicide if he tried to re-run the referendum after such an overwhelming ‘no’ vote.
      • I want to ask your outstanding panel, with the stock market way up and the economy roaring, why in the world would not it be political suicide to repeal the tax cut?
      • It will be political suicide for the Government if the Western Rail Corridor is not reopened, the West On Track group has warned.
      • But, as in the case of his father, that would have been less a gesture of bipartisanship than an act of political suicide.
      • However I cannot see any Member of Parliament putting up a white paper suggesting this, as it would be political suicide for the individual concerned.
    3. 1.3as modifier Relating to or denoting a military or terrorist operation carried out by people who do not expect to survive it.
      (军事上的)自杀性行为,与对方同归于尽的行为
      a suicide blast caused more deaths
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The explosive charges carried by the suicide bombers were packed with ball bearings and pieces of metal to maximise death and injury.
      • His determination to carry out a suicide bombing was against the wishes of his own family.
      • In his usual style, he had set up entities to carry out the suicide bomb operations that allowed him to deny responsibility for them.
      • A missile attack on a densely populated area is no more justifiable than a suicide bombing.
      • A man dresses as a suicide bomber and carries a fake bomb.
      • The documents showed some entered the country in the days around the suicide hijackings.
      • What they believed they were searching for was a suicide hijacker or team of hijackers.
      • Since then she has had a string of roles in Hindi cinema, the most notable being her portrayal of a suicide bomber in The Terrorist.
      • He will be lower profile, but the suicide bombings are expected to continue because he is an extremist.
      • In past weeks, bombers have carried out heavy suicide bombings but in single strikes.
      • It was not immediately clear whether the teenager was connected to any of the militant groups that have carried out suicide bombings.
      • They know that no military operation can stop the suicide bombers.
      • They said they have been ordered to carry out suicide bombings but decided instead they would give up.
      • Quoting the SAS motto Who Dares Wins, he called on worshippers to ‘out-imagine’ those who carried out suicide bombings.
      • The attack was carried out by a suicide bomber who blew himself up in a parking lot close to a restaurant.
      • Last month's murder of 31 Indians was blamed on three suicide attackers.
      • ‘The result of the investigation so far indicates that the bombings were carried out by suicide bombers,’ he said.
      • Your squad travels behind enemy lines disabling radio contacts, to better prepare the suicide mission of Operation Overlord.
      • Thus, Pape believes that suicide terrorism is essentially a strategy for national liberation from foreign military occupation.
      • One member of the terrorist group was a suicide bomber who blew himself up next to a security fence, enabling the other gunmen to storm the religious site.
      • Several villages around the cities have also been occupied as the army tries to prevent militants from carrying out suicide bombings.
  • 2US A running drill consisting of a sprint to a set point (especially a line on a basketball court) and back to the start, immediately followed by additional sprints of lengthening distances.

    we shot free throws and if we missed we ran suicides
verbˈs(j)uːɪsʌɪdˈsuəˌsaɪd
[no object]
  • Intentionally kill oneself.

    自杀

    she suicided in a very ugly manner

    她以一种非常骇人的方式自杀了。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Geraldine, whose husband suicided, gave a very moving and helpful account of coping with the death of her loved one.
    • In 1990, suffering from AIDS related illnesses, he suicided in New York.
    • This registry provided a good database about people who had suicided while on clozapine versus those who had discontinued clozapine.
    • He suicided after not coping with the culture of persecution attached to the unit.
    • Two people closely associated with this band have suicided in the past year.
    • I think this is a very difficult question, and I think our moods have swung from time to time, but in the dark moments we felt that he may well have suicided.
    • But the union actually says that more people, more bank tellers suicided using those guns
    • Most of these people I believe are suiciding in advance of the time that they would rather take their own lives because they are afraid of losing the opportunity to take their own lives.
    • A few years ago a Canadian colleague suicided when her ground-breaking work was repeatedly questioned on grounds that many of us thought were themselves of dubious merit.
    • We're not a deprived country, and yet why are so many young men suiciding?
    • People who came to see us have suicided since, and we found that very hard to take.
    • Before David's death I had lost people I loved - perhaps most closely, my maternal grandmother, and a friend and teacher who suicided.
    • It actually turned out to be that her son had suicided.
    • Many of our students know a friend or a friend's family member who has suicided.
    • If the men who suicided to hurt us did so thinking that they would be poisoning us and future generations with the kind of hate and lust for revenge that seems to have wrecked you, then they failed and their deaths were utterly without meaning.
    • So it didn't come as a surprise when she suicided.
    • So, that's the good news and we're even learning more so that perhaps in the future we get better at predicting who's most vulnerable to going and suiciding.
    • Tone, aboard the last French invasion fleet, was captured and suicided before he could be hanged.
    • Some months later, when another soldier learned that his dad had suicided, it was Garrick who sought him out and gave that soldier the best support.
    • His moods swings were cyclical and he was familiar with the impulse to suicide, as this verse attests.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from modern Latin suicidium 'act of suicide', suicida 'person who commits suicide', from Latin sui 'of oneself' + caedere 'kill'.

Definition of suicide in US English:

suicide

nounˈso͞oəˌsīdˈsuəˌsaɪd
  • 1The action of killing oneself intentionally.

    自杀

    he committed suicide at the age of forty

    他40岁时自杀了。

    drug-related suicides
    Example sentencesExamples
    • None of their family members had attempted or committed suicide in the preceding year.
    • A woman whose husband committed suicide was one of those who contributed to a recent seminar on suicide held in Skreen.
    • On another occasion during our two-year lease, a man who lived across the street committed suicide by jumping from what was a one-story building.
    • Eight anarchist trade unionists were arrested: four were hanged, one committed suicide in prison and the remaining three were eventually pardoned.
    • In Wilson College, Mumbai, an assistant librarian committed suicide because the college authorities had allegedly harassed her.
    • What should you do if someone your child knows, perhaps a friend or a classmate, has attempted or committed suicide?
    • The foundation said that this year several potato growers of Uttar Pradesh and other parts of the country committed suicide because of over-production and no buyers.
    • The doomed King Charles I's surveyor, Abraham van der Doort, for instance, committed suicide after misplacing one of 3,000 miniatures.
    • Most of the Jews inside decided they would rather die than surrender, and committed mass suicide.
    • Over the past seven years, 92 people have committed suicide or died while attempting to avoid deportation.
    • Two alleged paedophiles, who lived opposite the proposed hostel in Fivefields Road, committed suicide on the day they were to supposed to stand trial at Winchester Crown Court.
    • The troubled woman committed suicide seven years ago.
    • The depressive comic committed suicide in 1968, at the age of 44, but left behind a wealth of material that has continued to win fans with sketches such as The Blood Donor.
    • If they committed suicide we must know why they committed suicide, and if they were murdered we must know why.
    • The story goes that the first forced marriage was carried out in the 1970s, after seven sisters, unmarried because of their poverty, committed suicide together.
    • Her father committed suicide, her mother attempted suicide and she is co-founder of the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention.
    Synonyms
    self-destruction, taking one's own life, self-murder, self-slaughter, felo de se
    1. 1.1 A person who commits suicide.
      自杀者
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Other songs have ageing rockers dying unmourned and a would-be suicide weighing up the pro's and con's of life.
      • Nor is it at all uncommon for suicides to work something from popular songs or books or films into their deaths.
      • Over the years the Humber Bridge has built up an unenviable reputation for attracting would-be suicides.
      • It could just be about the world's losers, the failed would-be suicides and all our broken hearts.
      • After, on average, more than twenty-six years, ninety-four per cent of the would-be suicides were either still alive or had died of natural causes.
      • We drove across a bridge that's become so popular with suicides that the city is now encasing it with expensive, hideous jumper-proof wiring.
      • Jane Pennington died a suicide at the age of 48.
      • A would-be suicide was talked out of hanging himself from a public bridge - only to be promptly charged with assault.
      • Many SIBs would previously have been recorded as would-be suicides.
      • The autonomy granted by decriminalising suicide and attempted suicide in section 1 enables a would-be suicide to change her mind and seek help without fear of prosecution.
      • But in fact more than half have not been convicted of anything, and are placed here by social services because they are runaways, potentially violent, self-harmers or potential suicides.
    2. 1.2 A course of action that is disastrously damaging to oneself or one's own interests.
      自杀性行为,自毁
      it would be political suicide to restrict criteria for unemployment benefits

      限制领取失业救济金的标准无异于政治自杀。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • For any processor, being associated with an outbreak of foodborne illness is not only ethically damaging, but financial suicide.
      • But he's understandably not interested in committing career suicide.
      • Of course all these men knew, as all modern presidential candidates know, that to admit to theological skepticism is political suicide.
      • It will be political suicide for the Government if the Western Rail Corridor is not reopened, the West On Track group has warned.
      • However I cannot see any Member of Parliament putting up a white paper suggesting this, as it would be political suicide for the individual concerned.
      • I want to ask your outstanding panel, with the stock market way up and the economy roaring, why in the world would not it be political suicide to repeal the tax cut?
      • But, as in the case of his father, that would have been less a gesture of bipartisanship than an act of political suicide.
      • It would be political suicide for your government.
      • ‘They've just committed suicide,’ he said of the committee.
      • That, like the pacifist option, is the path of political suicide.
      • Openness to a range of options becomes weakness, thinking things through is dithering and willingness to accept the idea that you might sometimes be wrong is political suicide.
      • Who will say ‘no’ when the consultants argue that it's political suicide not to say ‘yes’?
      • At least in the immediate aftermath of the election, the editors recognize that that position is political suicide.
      • This kind of behavior among liberals is called political suicide.
      • There was no question of sitting on the sidelines; a neither-nor alternative would be political suicide and a declaration of bankruptcy on a vital issue.
      • Unfortunately, we haven't yet reached the point where that kind of bigotry is political suicide in this country.
      • Mould's no fool, mind you - to deny his past would be career suicide.
      • Given the state of the town's finances, a 60 per cent rise in allowances would not only have been immoral, but also political suicide.
      • But in the current political climate, with the Feds handing out tax cuts, raising taxes is political suicide.
      • Chirac would be risking political suicide if he tried to re-run the referendum after such an overwhelming ‘no’ vote.
    3. 1.3as modifier Relating to or denoting a violent act or attack carried out by a person who does not expect to survive it.
      (军事上的)自杀性行为,与对方同归于尽的行为
      a suicide blast caused more deaths
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One member of the terrorist group was a suicide bomber who blew himself up next to a security fence, enabling the other gunmen to storm the religious site.
      • Since then she has had a string of roles in Hindi cinema, the most notable being her portrayal of a suicide bomber in The Terrorist.
      • Several villages around the cities have also been occupied as the army tries to prevent militants from carrying out suicide bombings.
      • Last month's murder of 31 Indians was blamed on three suicide attackers.
      • Thus, Pape believes that suicide terrorism is essentially a strategy for national liberation from foreign military occupation.
      • It was not immediately clear whether the teenager was connected to any of the militant groups that have carried out suicide bombings.
      • They know that no military operation can stop the suicide bombers.
      • A missile attack on a densely populated area is no more justifiable than a suicide bombing.
      • The attack was carried out by a suicide bomber who blew himself up in a parking lot close to a restaurant.
      • A man dresses as a suicide bomber and carries a fake bomb.
      • What they believed they were searching for was a suicide hijacker or team of hijackers.
      • Quoting the SAS motto Who Dares Wins, he called on worshippers to ‘out-imagine’ those who carried out suicide bombings.
      • Your squad travels behind enemy lines disabling radio contacts, to better prepare the suicide mission of Operation Overlord.
      • In past weeks, bombers have carried out heavy suicide bombings but in single strikes.
      • They said they have been ordered to carry out suicide bombings but decided instead they would give up.
      • He will be lower profile, but the suicide bombings are expected to continue because he is an extremist.
      • The documents showed some entered the country in the days around the suicide hijackings.
      • The explosive charges carried by the suicide bombers were packed with ball bearings and pieces of metal to maximise death and injury.
      • ‘The result of the investigation so far indicates that the bombings were carried out by suicide bombers,’ he said.
      • In his usual style, he had set up entities to carry out the suicide bomb operations that allowed him to deny responsibility for them.
      • His determination to carry out a suicide bombing was against the wishes of his own family.
  • 2US A running drill consisting of a sprint to a set point (especially a line on a basketball court) and back to the start, immediately followed by additional sprints of lengthening distances.

    we shot free throws and if we missed we ran suicides
verbˈso͞oəˌsīdˈsuəˌsaɪd
[no object]
  • Intentionally kill oneself.

    自杀

    he leaves the service and then suicides
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Most of these people I believe are suiciding in advance of the time that they would rather take their own lives because they are afraid of losing the opportunity to take their own lives.
    • Some months later, when another soldier learned that his dad had suicided, it was Garrick who sought him out and gave that soldier the best support.
    • His moods swings were cyclical and he was familiar with the impulse to suicide, as this verse attests.
    • People who came to see us have suicided since, and we found that very hard to take.
    • But the union actually says that more people, more bank tellers suicided using those guns
    • I think this is a very difficult question, and I think our moods have swung from time to time, but in the dark moments we felt that he may well have suicided.
    • So it didn't come as a surprise when she suicided.
    • Before David's death I had lost people I loved - perhaps most closely, my maternal grandmother, and a friend and teacher who suicided.
    • A few years ago a Canadian colleague suicided when her ground-breaking work was repeatedly questioned on grounds that many of us thought were themselves of dubious merit.
    • It actually turned out to be that her son had suicided.
    • So, that's the good news and we're even learning more so that perhaps in the future we get better at predicting who's most vulnerable to going and suiciding.
    • In 1990, suffering from AIDS related illnesses, he suicided in New York.
    • He suicided after not coping with the culture of persecution attached to the unit.
    • Many of our students know a friend or a friend's family member who has suicided.
    • This registry provided a good database about people who had suicided while on clozapine versus those who had discontinued clozapine.
    • Tone, aboard the last French invasion fleet, was captured and suicided before he could be hanged.
    • Two people closely associated with this band have suicided in the past year.
    • If the men who suicided to hurt us did so thinking that they would be poisoning us and future generations with the kind of hate and lust for revenge that seems to have wrecked you, then they failed and their deaths were utterly without meaning.
    • We're not a deprived country, and yet why are so many young men suiciding?
    • Geraldine, whose husband suicided, gave a very moving and helpful account of coping with the death of her loved one.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from modern Latin suicidium ‘act of suicide’, suicida ‘person who commits suicide’, from Latin sui ‘of oneself’ + caedere ‘kill’.

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