suicide : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: suicide	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for suicide
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
suicide n the act of killing yourself; "it is a crime to commit suicide" Synonym(s): suicide, self-destruction, self- annihilation a person who kills himself intentionally Synonym(s): suicide, felo-de-se
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. [bd]Intestine war, which may be justly called political suicide.[b8] --V. Knox.