Word Meanings - SUICIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically , the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.

Additional info about word: SUICIDE

1. The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically , the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind. 2. One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se. 3. Ruin of one's own interests. "Intestine war, which may be justly called political suicide." V. Knox.

Related words: (words related to SUICIDE)

• KILLING
  Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible. -- Kill"ing*ly, adv. Those eyes are made so killing. Pope. Nothing could be more killingly spoken. Milton.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• FELONIOUS
  Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide. O thievish Night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• VOLUNTARY
  Of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions, such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• TAKE
  Taken. Chaucer.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• TAKE-OFF
  An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
• KILLESSE
  A gutter, groove, or channel. A hipped roof. Parker.
• DELIBERATELY
  With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.
• KILLIFISH
  Any one of several small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus and allied genera. They live equally well in fresh and brackish water, or even in the sea. They are usually striped or barred with black. Called also minnow, and brook fish.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.
• UNVOLUNTARY
  Involuntary. Fuller.
• LADY-KILLING
  The art or practice of captivating the hearts of women. Better for the sake of womankind that this dangerous dog should leave off lady-killing. Thackeray.
• MISTAKINGLY
  Erroneously.
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
• MULE KILLER
  Any of several arthropods erroneously supposed to kill live stock, in the southern United States, by stinging or by being swallowed; as: A whip scorpion. A walking-stick insect. A mantis. A wheel bug.
• SKILLED
  Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.