suicide
/ˈsuɪˌsaɪd/ noun B1- The act of intentionally killing oneself.
- A particular instance of a person intentionally killing oneself, or of multiple people doing so.
- A person who has intentionally killed themself.
- An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death may not be the aim of the action. · political suicide
- A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
- A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.
- A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by a return to the start, with no pause between one sprint and the next. · The coach makes us run suicides at the end of each basketball practice.
- A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
Plural suicides
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“Is it suicide, or is it murder—that’s our first question, gentlemen, is it not?
If it were suicide, then we have to believe that this man began by taking off his wedding ring and concealing it; that he then came down here in his dressing gown, trampled mud into a corner behind the curtain in order to give the idea someone had waited for him, opened the window, put blood on the—”
Suicide is out of the question.
“Everything points to the conclusion, sire,” said the minister of police, “that death was not the result of suicide, as we first believed, but of assassination.
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