Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The killing of one's self; suicide.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Suicide.

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  • noun suicide

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Examples

  • The Vice Dean asked us given Lady Macbeth changes as she does from a ironwilled accomplice to attempted attempted attempted attempted murder of progressing scenes to a raging sleepwalker as good as self-murder of a fifth act.

    Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009

  • Euthanasia is that small part of self-murder on the basis of averting greater, and unnecessary, and (this is the most important part) terminal physical pain.

    Matthew Yglesias » Bishops and Abortion 2010

  • But the issue doesn't finish there, for 3 IDIOTS raises the relevant question: Was it self-murder or murder?

    Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

  • The Vice Dean asked us given Lady Macbeth changes as she does from a ironwilled accomplice to attempted attempted attempted attempted murder of progressing scenes to a raging sleepwalker as good as self-murder of a fifth act.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • In this movie Hirarni explain really easily about the self-murder committed by students who have to fulfill the family expectations.

    3 Idiots Review - Three Idiots Movie Review & Wallpaper | Ready2Beat admin 2009

  • But the issue doesn't finish there, for 3 IDIOTS raises the relevant question: Was it self-murder or murder?

    3 Idiots Review - Three Idiots Movie Review & Wallpaper | Ready2Beat admin 2009

  • I became attuned to the nuances of self-murder in literature, in film, in psychoanalytic research.

    History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

  • As Holdsworth delves further into the distasteful secrets of Jerusalem, he begins to doubt the verdicts of "self-murder" or accident, but then how did Sylvia die?

    The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor Alison Flood 2010

  • I became attuned to the nuances of self-murder in literature, in film, in psychoanalytic research.

    History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

  • In this movie Hirarni explain really easily about the self-murder committed by students who have to fulfill the family expectations.

    Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

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