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suicide |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: suicide n 1: killing yourself [syn: {self-destruction}, {self-annihilation}] 2: a person who kills himself intentionally [syn: {felo-de-se}]
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