| Suicide 1. (n.) The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), 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. (adv.) One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se. 3. (adv.) Ruin of one's own interests. Thesaurus Entries aborticide, car of Jagannath, disembowelment, felo-de-se, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, hara-kiri, herbicide, homicide, infanticide, insecticide, mass suicide, matricide, microbicide, parricide, patricide, pesticide, regicide, ritual suicide, rodenticide, self-destruction, self-immolation, self-murder, self-sacrifice, seppuku, sororicide, suttee, sutteeism, uxoricide, vermicide |