suicide pactnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈsuː.ɪ.saɪd ˌpækt/us/ˈsuː.ɪ.saɪd ˌpækt/an agreement between two or more people to kill themselves together at the same time:
The leader of the religious sect and 30 of his followers killed themselves in a suicide pact last year.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Killing
- assisted suicide
- commit suicide idiom
- decimation
- do for sb/sth
- drown
- early
- electrocute
- end it (all) idiom
- fatal
- finish
- hara-kiri
- immolate
- killer
- life-threatening
- malignant
- mortally
- shooting
- slaughterhouse
- suicide
- terminal
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