suicide

1. (uncountable) The act of intentionally killing oneself.Examples: "As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."; "The cowardice of suicide was abhorrent to him."; "I realize and I can see / That suicide is painless / It brings on many changes / And I can take or leave it if I please"uncountable

2. (countable) A particular instance of a person intentionally killing oneself, or of multiple people doing so.Examples: "There had been half a dozen mysterious suicides which had been investigated by Scotland Yard."; "In this way the Heaven's Gate community were not only escaping the threat of 'global destruction', they were hurling themselves directly into 'the lap of God', using their suicide as a way of 'bridging the chasm' between an earthly world which had no future and 'a thousand years of unmitigated peace'."; "Prosser's focus on mental health in particular also led him to the (sometimes) life-threatening ways this can affect all of us, whether we work on the railway or not. In 2020-21, there were 247 suicides or suspected suicides on the national network - that's one every 35 hours."countable

3. (countable) A person who has intentionally killed themself.Examples: ""I remember one suicide," she said to Philip, "who threw himself into the Thames.""; "Early in the film two boys are caught having sex […] and this exposure leads to suicide and much conversation. "It wasn't even with a man from this house," remarks one of the suicide's house fellows, and an off-camera matron immediately folds the dead lad's mattress."Synonyms: an hero, self-killer, self-murderer, self-slayer, suicider, suicidistcountable

4. (figuratively) An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death is not the aim of the action.Examples: "political suicide"; "[…] I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan."; ""Mr. Glinn," said Britton, "it's suicide to take a huge ship like this past the Ice Limit. Especially in this weather.""countablefigurativelyuncountable

5. (countable, US, slang) A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.Examples: "You could sit at a corner and order your Suicide, and one of two twin brothers who worked there would hold an old-fashioned soda glass, a heavy tall V-shaped one with a round foot at the bottom, and go down the line with one shot of everything—cherry, lemon, Coke, and chocolate syrups—before adding soda water."; "Using Coca-Cola as a base, a suicide called for the addition of every other flavor available."Synonyms: graveyard, swamp waterUScountableslang

6. (countable) 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.Examples: "The coach makes us run suicides at the end of each basketball practice."countable