单词 | suicider |
释义 | suicidern. 1. A person who takes his or her own life, or intends to do so. Cf. suicide n.2 1.Recorded earliest in figurative use in political suicider: a person who ruins his or her own political prospects; cf. political suicide at suicide n.1 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > person who commits suicide > [noun] self-slayera1500 self-murderer1606 self-killer1624 autocide1635 self-destroyera1646 felon-de-se1648 felo-de-se1651 suicide1658 self-homicide1681 suicidist1814 suicider1841 1841 Bradford Observer 2 Sept. The pithless political suicider has no other chance of being beggared. 1858 Atlanta Weekly Intelligencer 23 Dec. A young German of Chicago..committed suicide on Saturday... The following we think an appropriate epitaph for suiciders. 1937 Monumenta Serica 3 175 A ceremony..performed for the spirits of suiciders. 2000 M. Ondaatje Anil's Ghost 252 Suiciders decide on that method of death [sc. swallowing lye] because, since it's the most painful, they might stop themselves doing it. 2. A person who carries out a military or (now esp.) terrorist bomb attack with the intention or expectation of dying in the process; = suicide bomber n. at suicide n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > airman > [noun] > fighter pilot > suicidal suicider1944 kamikaze1945 1944 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 18 Dec. 2/6 The Jap fighter pilots..who approach for death and grace... These suiciders will not be deterred. 1985 Assoc. Press (Nexis) 10 July He cocked his weapon when the woman car bomber approached. ‘I ordered her to stop and then..she raced into the cement blocks... In these seconds I was sure she was a suicider.’ 2008 Independent 14 Mar. (Extra section) 5/5 Another suicider attacked a second Shia mosque, killing 14 worshippers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1841 |
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