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suicide

noun
 
🔊/ˈsuːɪsaɪd/
🔊/ˈsuːɪsaɪd/
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  1.  
    [uncountable, countable] the act of killing yourself deliberately自杀
    • to commit suicide自杀
    • an attempted suicide (= one in which the person survives)自杀未遂
    • a suicide bomber (= who expects to die while trying to kill other people with a bomb)自杀式爆炸者
    see also assisted suicide
    Extra Examples
    • Her death was ruled an apparent suicide.她的死被判定为明显的自杀。
    • Members of the sect committed mass suicide.那个教派的成员集体自杀了。
    • He slashed his wrists in a failed suicide attempt.他割腕自杀未遂。
    • He was put on suicide watch earlier in his prison term.为防止他自杀，关押初期他受到了监视。
    • There is no evidence that he is a suicide risk.没有证据表明他要自杀。
    • a suicide bomb attack on a military convoy对军事舰队进行的自杀性爆炸袭击
    • the questions surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide围绕安乐死和辅助性自杀的问题
    • the ritual suicide of a widow on her husband's funeral pyre寡妇在丈夫的火葬柴堆上进行的仪式性自杀
    Topics Crime and punishmentc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • attempted
    • collective
    • double
    • …
    verb + suicide
    • commit
    • attempt
    • consider
    • …
    suicide + noun
    • risk
    • threat
    • attempt
    • …
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  2.  
    [uncountable] a course of action that is likely to destroy your career, position in society, etc.自杀性行为；自毁；自取灭亡的行为
    • It would have been political suicide for him to challenge the allegations in court.假如当时他在法庭上质疑那些指控，那无异于自毁政治前程。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • That's asking them to commit career suicide.那等于是让他们断送自己的职业生涯。
    • Wearing shoes like that would be social suicide.穿那样的鞋子无异于社交上自绝其路。
  3. [countable] (formal) a person who commits suicide自杀者
    4. Word Originmid 17th cent.: from modern Latin suicida ‘act of suicide’, suicidium ‘person who commits suicide’, from Latin sui ‘of oneself’ + caedere ‘kill’.