Hypertext Webster Gateway: "suicide"
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. ``Intestine war, which may be
justly called political suicide.'' --V. Knox.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
suicide
n 1: the act of killing yourself [syn: {self-destruction}, {self-annihilation}]
2: a person who kills himself intentionally [syn: {felo-de-se}]
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