suicide

/ˈsu·əˌsɑɪd/ n [C/U]

Definition

› the act of killing yourself intentionally: [U] She threatened to commit suicide. › Suicide can also refer to any act that has the effect of causing defeat: [U] It would be political suicide for him to refuse to support his own party’s platform.

(Definition of suicide n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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