suicide
[ˈsuːɪsaɪd]
Definition:
1. The act of killing yourself.
2. A person who kills himself intentionally.
'suicide' example sentence:
- The possibility of suicide was ruled out.
- This article discusses the events that led to her suicide.
- There are unconfirmed reports he tried to commit suicide.
- In utter despair he committed suicide.
- Stress can cause high blood pressure, heart attacks and alcoholism, and it may even drive people to suicide.
- He committed suicide rather than face the shame of being linked to the scandal.
- There have been a lot of single case reports where teenagers or young adults are bullied on social media and they end up committing suicide.
- David was an unsuccessful suicide.
- He's bent on suicide.
- She tried to commit suicide on several occasions.
- He did not succeed in committing suicide.
- He brooded on whether she should commit suicide.
- What are the signs that foreshadow a suicide?
- A girl committed suicide after continued cyber-bullying and harassments.
- They are quite susceptible to suicide.
- Some people unluckily achieve suicide when they only meant to attempt it.
- In his late novel the hero, Robert Jordan, thinks sadly that his father was really a coward who finally proved his cowardice by committing suicide.
- She opened her heart to millions yesterday and told how she came close to suicide.
- Quite a few have committed social suicide by writing their boring memoirs.
- I was grieved to hear of the suicide of James.
- She had committed suicide by hanging herself.
- In extreme cases it can even lead to suicide, though this is thankfully rare.
- You're resurrected with cybernetics and nanotechnology so that you can go on a suicide mission to discover why colonies of humans are disappearing.
- There is a disproportionately high suicide rate among prisoners facing very long sentences.
- On December 31, a bomber in Baqouba detonated her suicide vest close to a police patrol, wounding five policemen and four civilians.
- According to the presentation, more teens die in automobile crashes in the United States each year than from drugs, violence, smoking and suicide.
- Suicide is often connected with socio-economic deprivation.
- Originally it was said that the actress committed suicide, but it was not long before doubts began to surface.
- According to the army, the teenager said he was on a 'suicide mission' for the movement.
- Just look at this newspaper, nothing but robbery, suicide and murder.
- They believe this confusion is responsible for a rash of suicides this spring.
- It would be unfair to Debby's family to speculate on the reasons for her suicide.
- The inquest will bring in a verdict of suicide.
- The coroner immediately classified his death as a suicide.
- He attempted to end his trouble by suicide.
- She had committed suicide by hanging herself from a beam.
- More than once, depression drove him to attempt suicide.
- Adolescent suicide is rarely an impulsive reaction to immediate distress.
- It would have been political suicide for him to challenge the allegations in court.
- To assist someone in suicide is not only to break criminal laws, but to break divine laws as well.
- One cause of the artist's suicide seems to have been chronic poverty.
- That night when we crossed the ferry with Bull Lee, a girl committed suicide off the deck either just before or just after us.
- You write very movingly of your sister Amy's suicide.
- Her suicide attempt was really a cry for help.
- The most striking feature of those statistics is the high proportion of suicides.
- He had attempted to cover his tracks by making her death appear like suicide.
- Factual and forensic evidence makes a suicide verdict the most compelling answer to the mystery of his death.