suicide
♦ sui|cide /s'uːɪsaɪd/ (suicides)
1 [N-VAR]
People who commit suicide deliberately kill themselves because they do not want to continue living.
She tried to commit suicide on several occasions.
...a growing number of suicides in the community.
2 [N-UNCOUNT] supp N
You say that people commit suicide when they deliberately do something which ruins their career or position in society.
They say it would be political suicide for the party to abstain.
3 [ADJ] ADJ n
The people involved in a suicide attack, mission, or bombing do not expect to survive.
According to the army, the teenager said he was on a `suicide mission' for the movement.
...a suicide bomber.sui|cide note (suicide notes)
[N-COUNT]
A suicide note is a note written by someone who intends to kill themselves saying that this is what they are going to do and sometimes explaining why.sui|cide pact (suicide pacts)
[N-COUNT]
A suicide pact is an arrangement that two or more people make to kill themselves at the same time and usually in the same place.
Police refused to say if the couple died in a suicide pact.
1 [N-VAR]
People who commit suicide deliberately kill themselves because they do not want to continue living.
She tried to commit suicide on several occasions.
...a growing number of suicides in the community.
2 [N-UNCOUNT] supp N
You say that people commit suicide when they deliberately do something which ruins their career or position in society.
They say it would be political suicide for the party to abstain.
3 [ADJ] ADJ n
The people involved in a suicide attack, mission, or bombing do not expect to survive.
According to the army, the teenager said he was on a `suicide mission' for the movement.
...a suicide bomber.sui|cide note (suicide notes)
[N-COUNT]
A suicide note is a note written by someone who intends to kill themselves saying that this is what they are going to do and sometimes explaining why.sui|cide pact (suicide pacts)
[N-COUNT]
A suicide pact is an arrangement that two or more people make to kill themselves at the same time and usually in the same place.
Police refused to say if the couple died in a suicide pact.