Definizione monolingua

suicide

suicide (third-person singular simple present suicides, present participle suiciding, simple past and past participle suicided)

1. (intransitive) To kill oneself intentionally.
   • 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Annes House of Dreams, ch. 11:

     ""Her husband suicided three years ago. Just like a man!""

suicide (usually uncountable; plural suicides)

1. (uncountable) Intentional killing of oneself, as a kind of action or social phenomenon.
   • 1904, Harold MacGrath, The Man On The Box, ch. 22:

     The cowardice of suicide was abhorrent to him.

2. (countable) A particular instance of a person intentionally killing himself or herself, or of multiple people doing so.
   • 1919, Edgar Wallace, The Secret House, ch. 14:

     There had been half a dozen mysterious suicides which had been investigated by Scotland Yard.

   • 1999, Philip H. Melling, Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-0978-9, page 192:

     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’.

3. (countable) A person who has intentionally killed him/herself.
   • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, ch. 95:

     ""I remember one suicide,"" she said to Philip, ""who threw himself into the Thames.""

4. (figuratively) An action that creates serious difficulty for its performer.
   • 1959, Everett Dirksen, in the Congressional Record, Feb. 9, page 2100:^[1]

     […] I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

5. (countable) A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
   • 1994, Christopher Buckley, Cruising State: Growing Up in Southern California, University of Nevada Press, ISBN 0-87417-247-0, p. 34:

     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.

   • 2000, Mark Pendergrast, For God, Country and Coca-Cola, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-05468-4, p. 15:

     Using Coca-Cola as a base, a suicide called for the addition of every other flavor available.

6. 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.

suicide pl.

1. feminine form of suicida

Definizione dizionario suicide

	suicidio
	the event
	The act of a person killing himself intentionally.

	suicida
	the person
	A woman who intentionally takes her own life.
	Person who intentionally takes his or her own life.

	uccidersi
	To end one's own life purposefully.

Altri significati:

(countable) A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.

(figuratively) An action that creates serious difficulty for its performer.

(uncountable) Intentional killing of oneself, as a kind of action or social phenomenon.

(countable) A person who has intentionally killed him/herself.

(countable) A particular instance of a person intentionally killing himself or herself, or of multiple people doing so.

figurative: action

resignation (from a post)

(intransitive) To kill oneself intentionally.