English words for 'Suicide.'
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noun
adj
- Pertaining to suicide.
- Of a person, likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide.
- (informal, hyperbolic) Extremely reckless.
- Of a voluntarily-chosen course of action, highly likely to certain to result in the deaths of the participants; dangerous or reckless to such a degree as to be tantamount to suicide for those taking part.
- dangerous to yourself or your interests
noun
noun
noun
- Suicide or any suicidal action.
- Ceremonial suicide by disembowelment, as by slicing open the abdomen with a dagger or knife: formerly practised in Japan by the samurai when disgraced or sentenced to death.
- (by extension, figuratively) An act against one's own interests.
- ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society
verb
- To die.
- To go unconscious; to pass out.
- (idiomatic) To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment.
- (with with) To have a romantic relationship (with someone).
- (colloquial) To fail.
- To be drained from; to disappear from somebody.
- To become extinct, to expire.
- To leave, especially a building.
- (intransitive, usually of one's heart) To sympathize with; to express positive feelings towards.
- (of the tide) To recede; to ebb.
- To pass out of fashion; be on the wane.
- (card games) To discard or meld all the cards in one's hand.
- (UK, broadcasting) To be broadcast.
- (of a couple) To have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates; to be a couple.
- (with on) To spend the last moments of a show (while playing something).
- To be turned off or extinguished.
- To be eliminated from a competition.
- move out of or depart from
- go out of fashion; become unfashionable
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- leave the house to go somewhere
- take the field
- become extinguished
verb
verb
verb
noun
noun
verb
adj
noun
- An attack requiring the suicide of the one carrying it out, especially when done with an aircraft.
- (countable) A cocktail made of equal parts vodka, triple sec and lime juice.
- (colloquial, countable) One who takes excessive risks, as for example in a sporting event.
- (countable, surfing) A deliberate wipeout.
- (countable) A vehicle used for a suicide attack, especially an aircraft.
- (countable) One who carries out a suicide attack, especially with an aircraft.
- a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II
- a pilot trained and willing to cause a suicidal crash
verb
noun
- Death.
- (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.
- An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
- Destiny, especially terrible.
- Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.
- an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
phrase
verb
noun
- Death.
- Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate. [from 17th c.]
- An accident that causes death. [from 19th c.]
- The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [from 17th c.]
- A person killed.
- That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. [from 18th c.]
- (video games) A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.
- a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
- the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
prefix
adj
- Fatal; resulting in death.
- Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
- Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
- causing or ending in or approaching death
- being or situated at an end
- of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
- relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
noun
- A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
- An electric contact on a battery.
- A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
- (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
- (computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
- A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
- (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
- A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
- A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
- (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (electricity, electronics) The end of a line (wire, cable, etc) where signals or power are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals or power are made available to apparatus; the hardware attached to the line in this spot, which allows connections to be fastened.
- (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.
- electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
- station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- either extremity of something that has length
- a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
verb
verb
- (intransitive, informal) To commit suicide.
- (intransitive) To unplug or cut power to a machine.
- (intransitive, informal) To turn off life support.
- (intransitive, informal) To cease to support; to halt. [with on ‘someone or something’]
- (intransitive, informal) To cease production or publication.
- prevent from happening or continuing
noun
phrase
verb
- (intransitive, slang) To commit suicide.
- (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
- (intransitive, biology, of DNA) To switch locations on chromosomes.
- (transitive) To pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap.
- (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
- (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
- (transitive) To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
- (transitive, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
- (transitive) To cause to jump.
- (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- (intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
- (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
- To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
- (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- (transitive) To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.
- (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
- (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- (intransitive, figurative) To shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly.
- rise in rank or status
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- increase suddenly and significantly
- cause to jump or leap
- pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
- make a sudden physical attack on
- enter eagerly into
- jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- jump down from an elevated point
- be highly noticeable
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
- run off or leave the rails
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- bypass
noun
- (film) Clipping of jump cut.
- (slang) Any abrupt increase; a sudden rise; a hike
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- (sports, equestrianism) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- (US, informal, automotive) Ellipsis of jump-start.
- (theater) Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”).
- A jumping move in a board game.
- A kind of loose jacket for men.
- The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
- An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
- (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- (with on) An early start or an advantage.
- (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
- A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
- (programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- (physics, hydrodynamics) An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
- a sudden involuntary movement
- descent with a parachute
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
- (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
noun
name
- (politics) Initialism of Partidul Acțiune și Solidaritate (“Party of Action and Solidarity”), a liberal political party in Moldova.
- (Malaysia, politics) Initialism of Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (“Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party”), an Islamist and conservative political party in Malaysia.
- Initialism of Pakistan Administrative Service.
noun
- (rare) One who commits suicide.
- An act of suicide committed by crashing an automobile.
- (uncountable, agriculture) Control of a pest through propagation of sterile males.
- An act of killing someone with an automobile.
- (countable and uncountable, bacteriology) A substance produced by a bacterium that is fatal to that bacterium.
verb
noun
- A person who attempts suicide by hanging.
- A bridle iron.
- A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
- A clothes hanger.
- (now historical) A short and broad backsword, worn so to hang at the side, especially popular in the 18th century.
- (cycling) Ellipsis of derailleur hanger
- (slang) Hunger and anger, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger.
- (UK) A steep, wooded slope.
- One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman, paper hanger, etc.
- (baseball, slang) A hanging pitch; a pitch (typically a breaking ball or slider) that is poorly executed, hence easy to hit.
- (Australian rules football, informal) Synonym of spectacular mark.
- (climbing) A device secured by a bolt and used to attach a carabiner.
- anything from which something can be hung
- a worker who hangs something
verb
verb
- (slang) To die.
- (intransitive) To settle one's debts, accounts, or bills, especially relating to gambling.
- (figurative, often followed by on) To profit from something; to take advantage of an opportunity in order to profit, especially financially; to capitalize on.
- To exchange for cash.
- exchange for cash
noun
noun
noun
- Suicide or any suicidal action.
- Ceremonial suicide by disembowelment, as by slicing open the abdomen with a dagger or knife: formerly practised in Japan by the samurai when disgraced or sentenced to death.
- (by extension, figuratively) An act against one's own interests.
- ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society
noun
verb
noun
- Death.
- (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.
- An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
- Destiny, especially terrible.
- Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.
- an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
phrase
verb
noun
- Death.
- Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate. [from 17th c.]
- An accident that causes death. [from 19th c.]
- The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [from 17th c.]
- A person killed.
- That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. [from 18th c.]
- (video games) A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.
- a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
- the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
noun
adj
- Pertaining to suicide.
- Of a person, likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide.
- (informal, hyperbolic) Extremely reckless.
- Of a voluntarily-chosen course of action, highly likely to certain to result in the deaths of the participants; dangerous or reckless to such a degree as to be tantamount to suicide for those taking part.
- dangerous to yourself or your interests
noun
noun
name
- (politics) Initialism of Partidul Acțiune și Solidaritate (“Party of Action and Solidarity”), a liberal political party in Moldova.
- (Malaysia, politics) Initialism of Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (“Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party”), an Islamist and conservative political party in Malaysia.
- Initialism of Pakistan Administrative Service.
noun
- (rare) One who commits suicide.
- An act of suicide committed by crashing an automobile.
- (uncountable, agriculture) Control of a pest through propagation of sterile males.
- An act of killing someone with an automobile.
- (countable and uncountable, bacteriology) A substance produced by a bacterium that is fatal to that bacterium.
noun
- A person who attempts suicide by hanging.
- A bridle iron.
- A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
- A clothes hanger.
- (now historical) A short and broad backsword, worn so to hang at the side, especially popular in the 18th century.
- (cycling) Ellipsis of derailleur hanger
- (slang) Hunger and anger, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger.
- (UK) A steep, wooded slope.
- One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman, paper hanger, etc.
- (baseball, slang) A hanging pitch; a pitch (typically a breaking ball or slider) that is poorly executed, hence easy to hit.
- (Australian rules football, informal) Synonym of spectacular mark.
- (climbing) A device secured by a bolt and used to attach a carabiner.
- anything from which something can be hung
- a worker who hangs something
verb
- To die.
- To go unconscious; to pass out.
- (idiomatic) To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment.
- (with with) To have a romantic relationship (with someone).
- (colloquial) To fail.
- To be drained from; to disappear from somebody.
- To become extinct, to expire.
- To leave, especially a building.
- (intransitive, usually of one's heart) To sympathize with; to express positive feelings towards.
- (of the tide) To recede; to ebb.
- To pass out of fashion; be on the wane.
- (card games) To discard or meld all the cards in one's hand.
- (UK, broadcasting) To be broadcast.
- (of a couple) To have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates; to be a couple.
- (with on) To spend the last moments of a show (while playing something).
- To be turned off or extinguished.
- To be eliminated from a competition.
- move out of or depart from
- go out of fashion; become unfashionable
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- leave the house to go somewhere
- take the field
- become extinguished
verb
verb
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive, informal) To commit suicide.
- (intransitive) To unplug or cut power to a machine.
- (intransitive, informal) To turn off life support.
- (intransitive, informal) To cease to support; to halt. [with on ‘someone or something’]
- (intransitive, informal) To cease production or publication.
- prevent from happening or continuing
verb
- (intransitive, slang) To commit suicide.
- (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
- (intransitive, biology, of DNA) To switch locations on chromosomes.
- (transitive) To pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap.
- (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
- (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
- (transitive) To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
- (transitive, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
- (transitive) To cause to jump.
- (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- (intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
- (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
- To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
- (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- (transitive) To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.
- (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
- (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- (intransitive, figurative) To shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly.
- rise in rank or status
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- increase suddenly and significantly
- cause to jump or leap
- pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
- make a sudden physical attack on
- enter eagerly into
- jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- jump down from an elevated point
- be highly noticeable
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
- run off or leave the rails
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- bypass
noun
- (film) Clipping of jump cut.
- (slang) Any abrupt increase; a sudden rise; a hike
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- (sports, equestrianism) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- (US, informal, automotive) Ellipsis of jump-start.
- (theater) Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”).
- A jumping move in a board game.
- A kind of loose jacket for men.
- The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
- An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
- (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- (with on) An early start or an advantage.
- (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
- A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
- (programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- (physics, hydrodynamics) An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
- a sudden involuntary movement
- descent with a parachute
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
- (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
verb
verb
verb
- (slang) To die.
- (intransitive) To settle one's debts, accounts, or bills, especially relating to gambling.
- (figurative, often followed by on) To profit from something; to take advantage of an opportunity in order to profit, especially financially; to capitalize on.
- To exchange for cash.
- exchange for cash
adj
- Pertaining to suicide.
- Of a person, likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide.
- (informal, hyperbolic) Extremely reckless.
- Of a voluntarily-chosen course of action, highly likely to certain to result in the deaths of the participants; dangerous or reckless to such a degree as to be tantamount to suicide for those taking part.
- dangerous to yourself or your interests
noun
adj
noun
- An attack requiring the suicide of the one carrying it out, especially when done with an aircraft.
- (countable) A cocktail made of equal parts vodka, triple sec and lime juice.
- (colloquial, countable) One who takes excessive risks, as for example in a sporting event.
- (countable, surfing) A deliberate wipeout.
- (countable) A vehicle used for a suicide attack, especially an aircraft.
- (countable) One who carries out a suicide attack, especially with an aircraft.
- a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II
- a pilot trained and willing to cause a suicidal crash
verb
adj
- Fatal; resulting in death.
- Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
- Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
- causing or ending in or approaching death
- being or situated at an end
- of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
- relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
noun
- A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
- An electric contact on a battery.
- A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
- (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
- (computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
- A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
- (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
- A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
- A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
- (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (electricity, electronics) The end of a line (wire, cable, etc) where signals or power are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals or power are made available to apparatus; the hardware attached to the line in this spot, which allows connections to be fastened.
- (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.
- electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
- station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- either extremity of something that has length
- a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves