单词 | to commit suicide |
释义 | > as lemmasto commit suicide P6. transitive. to commit suicide: to end one's own life intentionally; to kill oneself. Also figurative and in extended use. Cf. sense 9a.Historically, suicide was regarded as a crime in many societies. Laws against suicide existed in English common law until 1961. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > suicide > [verb (intransitive)] to commit suicide1712 suicide1840 to end it (all)1911 to take one's (own) life1920 to drink the Kool-Aid1978 1712 T. Rhind Apol. 196 That very Exercise..which had almost driven him to Despair, and to commit Suicide. 1774 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 4 Feb. The truth is, the Opposition has triumphed over itself, or rather committed suicide. 1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 970 A proviso..declaring the policy to be void in case the insured should..commit suicide. 1880 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 28 Sept. E. B. Kellar, rental agent, committed suicide to-day by morphine. 1919 Solicitors' Jrnl. 23 Aug. 767/2 A man, who had committed suicide by placing his head in a gas oven with the taps turned on. 1977 C. Thomas Firefox (1978) vi. 160 Any pilot who ran the risk of the Moscow defenses would be committing suicide—even in a plane that allows no radar trace. 2011 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Oct. 47/3 (title) Drescher's book..demonstrated that abolishing the slave trade was comparable to committing economic suicide for an important part of Britain's economy. < as lemmas |
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