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suicide

suicide: listen to British English pronunciationsuicide: listen to American pronunciation /ˈsuːɪsaɪd/ noun

Definition

DEATH [C, U]
when you intentionally kill yourself:
He committed suicide after a long period of depression.
MISTAKE [U]
when you do something that will have an extremely bad result for you:
political suicide
(Definition of suicide noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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