Meaning | The act of killing yourself. |
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Synonyms | suicide, self-destruction |
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Narrower | assisted suicide | suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible |
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felo-de-se | An act of deliberate self destruction |
harakiri, hara-kiri, harikari, seppuku | ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword |
suttee | The act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband |
Broader | killing, kill, putting to death | The act of terminating a life |
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Spanish | autodestrucción, suicidio |
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Catalan | suïcidi |
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