| 单词 | suicide |
| 释义 | suicide (once / 333 pages) n Suicide is killing yourself on purpose, dying at your own hand. Some people kill themselves by accident, but that’s not suicide, it’s just clumsy and unfortunate. The word suicide breaks down into the Latin words sui and caedere, which together translate to “kill oneself.” However, not all suicides are about the final end of life. For example, a righteous politician can commit political suicide by speaking publicly about an unpopular topic. We call a person who has killed himself a suicide, and a police report might tell how many suicides happen in a city each year. WORD FAMILYsuicide: suicidal, suicides+/suicidal: suicidally USAGE EXAMPLESSix inmates died in the prison last year - four as a result of suicide. BBC(Jan 03, 2017) My parents would like to retire and move near their granddaughter, but they fear that if they left he would commit suicide. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) On Sunday, it claimed an attack by five suicide bombers in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, killing eight people and wounding nearly two dozen. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) 1n the act of killing yourself it is a crime to commit suicide Syn|Hypo|Hyper self-annihilation, self-destruction assisted suicide suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible felo-de-sean act of deliberate self destruction hara-kiri, harakiri, harikari, seppukuritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society sutteethe act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband physician-assisted suicideassisted suicide where the assistant is a physician kill, killing, putting to death the act of terminating a life 2n a person who kills himself intentionally Syn|Hyper felo-de-se killer, slayer someone who causes the death of a person or animal |
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