/
ˈsuːɪsʌɪd/
n.
- the action of killing oneself intentionally.
▸a person who does this.
▸
[
as modifier]
relating to or denoting a military or terrorist operation carried out by people who do not expect to survive it:
a suicide bomber.
- a course of action which is disastrously damaging to one's own interests.
v.
intentionally kill oneself.
Derivative
- suicidal adj.
- suicidally adv.
Etymology
C17: from mod. L. suicida ‘act of suicide’, suicidium ‘person who commits suicide’, from L. sui ‘of oneself’ + caedere ‘kill’.