{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈsuəˌsaɪd", "ˈsuɪˌsaɪd" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (RP)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/suicide.wav" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "Attested in 1651 as New Latin suīcīdium (“killing of oneself”), probably originating in English. See -cide. Displaced native Old English selfcwalu (literally “self-slaughter”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "suicide (countable and uncountable, plural suicides)\n\n(uncountable) Intentional killing of oneself.\nSynonyms: (rare) autohomicide, self-blood, (Internet slang, humorous, euphemistic) self-deletion, self-killing, self-murder, self-slaughter, self-slaying\n1904, Harold MacGrath, The Man On The Box, ch. 22:\nThe cowardice of suicide was abhorrent to him.\n1970, Mike Altman (lyrics), Johnny Mandel (music), “Suicide Is Painless”: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\n2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:Other global taboos, such as sex and suicide, manifest themselves widely online, with websites offering suicide guides and Hot XXX Action seconds away at the click of a button. \n(countable) A particular instance of a person intentionally killing themself, or of multiple people doing so.\n1919, Edgar Wallace, The Secret House, ch. 14:\nThere had been half a dozen mysterious suicides which had been investigated by Scotland Yard.\n1999, Philip H. Melling, Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, 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'.\n(countable) A person who has intentionally killed themself.\nSynonyms: (Internet slang) an hero, self-killer, self-murderer, self-slayer, suicidee, (nonstandard) suicider\n1915, W Somerset Maugham, chapter 95, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y. George H Doran Company, →OCLC:\"I remember one suicide,\" she said to Philip, \"who threw himself into the Thames.\"\n(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.\npolitical suicide\n1959, Everett Dirksen, in the Congressional Record, Feb. 9, page 2100:\n I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.\n2000, Douglas Preston Lincoln Child, The Ice Limit, →ISBN:\"Mr. Glinn,\" said Britton, \"it's suicide to take a huge ship like this past the Ice Limit. Especially in this weather.\"\n2004, Robert D. Lock, Job Search: Career Planning Guide, →ISBN, page 24: it's suicide to change jobs in mid-career.\n2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC,scene: Normandy SR-2:Miranda No good. Both routes are blocked. See these doors? The only way past is to get someone to open them from the other side.Shepard It's not a fortress; there's got to be something. Here, maybe we can send someone in through this ventilation shaft.Jacob Practically a suicide mission. I volunteer.Miranda I appreciate the thought, Jacob, but you couldn't shut down the security systems in time. We need to send a tech expert.\n2013 August 21, Tariq Ali, “A suicide note to Trotsky that displayed political passions we should not forget”, in The Guardian:Italian communism and those on its left had committed political suicide.\n2018 October 17, Drachinifel, Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 4 August 2022, 25:13 from the start:Amidst all the chaos, Großer Kurfürst slows up and strikes her colors, her crew having had enough, and have overpowered the officers - willing to fight, but not willing to commit suicide.\n(countable,US,slang) A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.\nSynonyms: graveyard, swamp water\n1994, Christopher Buckley, Cruising State: Growing Up in Southern California, University of Nevada Press, →ISBN, page 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.\n2000, Mark Pendergrast, For God, Country and Coca-Cola, Basic Books, →ISBN, page 15:Using Coca-Cola as a base, a suicide called for the addition of every other flavor available.\nA 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.\n(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.\nThe coach makes us run suicides at the end of each basketball practice.\nA children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.\n(attributive) Pertaining to a suicide bombing.\nsuicide belt\nsuicide vest" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(intransitive) To kill oneself intentionally.\n1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, ch. 11:\n\"Her husband suicided three years ago. Just like a man!\"\n1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, page 136:\nSeems a lady poet suicided at Verringer's ranch in Sepulveda canyon one time." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide (now especially as part of a conspiracy).\n1898 October 29, in Punch, or the London charivari, page 196:\nHave bought The Shanghai Chopsticks. Proprietor at first refused to sell, but when I ordered the boiling oil he became more reasonable. Editor reports that circulation is not what it ought to be. Will publish proclaimation, \"Any person found not in possession of The Shanghai Chopsticks (current number) will be suicided.\"\n2011, Tobias Jones, White Death, →ISBN, page 273:Even if he did get charged, he would be suicided long before he could involve one of the city's most important politicians in the scam.\n2013 September 23, Philip Willan, The Vatican at War: From Blackfriars Bridge to Buenos Aires, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 257:Gelli also expressed skepticism about Calvi's ability to climb out over the scaffolding in his leather-soled city shoes. 'I think they suicided him." }, { "mean": "To self-destruct.\n1957, The Institute of Mineral Industries, Proceedings - Issues 181-182, page 315:At the conclusion of each wind, the movement of the driver's control lever back to the neutral position, and consequently the movement of the Ward Leonard controller back to its neutral position, firstly opens the directional contacts which isolate the generator field from the Ward Leonard exciter and, secondly, operates contactors which eliminate the effect of the residual field by suiciding the generator field as outlined above.\n2006, Ugliness?: Destroying a Country, →ISBN:The problem is that the degradation of our common space requires a complete social transformation, because it's a part of Galician society's general degradation, a society demographically declining — demographically suiciding, as it were — with inactive employers and intellectual elites comfortably disconnected from real life;\n2010, Martin H. Greenberg, The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse, →ISBN, page 189:Here in America we just called them survivors, after the Chinese suicided their psychotic society in the seventies, and destroyed most of urban America in the process." } ] }, { "name": "See_also_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "hara-kiri\nkamikaze\nseppuku" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "참조_also_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }