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suicide English

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What does suicide mean?
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suicide

Suicide is the act of a person killing themself on purpose. Sadly, Joe committed suicide last Thursday. The police are investigating three suicides at the school. The suicide bomber killed himself and three other people in a crowded market.

suicide

the act of killing yourself it is a crime to commit suicide a person who kills himself intentionally

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Topics suicide topics

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Simple sentences

She committed suicide yesterday.
I've attempted suicide twice.
It seems unlikely that Tom committed suicide.
The police haven't ruled out suicide.
Nobody had an idea that Tom was going to commit suicide.
Tom threatened to commit suicide if he should get fired.
Have you ever thought about commiting suicide?
Was it a murder or a suicide?
Smoking means suicide.
The prominent poet attempted to commit suicide in his study.
That man can't have committed suicide.
The popular singer committed suicide.
The heroine of the novel committed suicide.
His suicide came as a result of his disappointment in love.
Suicide is a desperate act.
The newspaper says that he committed suicide.
He will commit suicide if he can't see his son.
He committed suicide by jumping out of a high window.
He committed suicide.
He committed suicide by hanging himself.
The poet committed suicide in his study.
There seems to be no end to the number of young people committing suicide these days.
He committed suicide to atone for his sin.
She committed suicide by jumping off the bridge.
She tried to commit suicide.
She attempted suicide.

Movie subtitles

Why didn't you stage it as a suicide pact?
Suicide wouldn't ring true.
Like homicide or suicide.
That's not a plan, that's suicide!
The rumor of Vandeuvres's suicide has spread throughout Paris.
You go back to that dame and it's suicide.
Suicide for both of you.
I'm sure he wouldn't care a tuppence if chloe committed suicide.
Once the vampire has gained complete control over its victim, it seeks to drive the victim to suicide, thus delivering that soul to the Evil One.
Wynant's tried to commit suicide.
What about the suicide?
We just had an attack of insanity and decided to keep you from committing suicide.
Not so much by natural death, as by indirect suicide.
He's implying nothing, but for us to let those goods go through would be committing suicide.
It's a suicide fair.
We call them suicide passengers.
That's worse than suicide.
All the papers are saying it's a suicide.
For those who commit suicide.
When you commit suicide, you usually forget something in haste or panic.
And when Sandy saw the baby for the first time he committed suicide.
Vickers, it's suicide.
I can't let him go alone. It's suicide.
It's a plain case of suicide.
It was suicide.
She committed suicide yesterday.
Maybe she didn't commit suicide.
If she committed suicide with laudanum she probably took it in its true form. and we'll find it in that or very close to that state.
Maybe they're planning a double suicide.
What about the suicide? - That was a phony.
What about suicide?
It's a bad start to a day, a suicide.
First good weather for three days, and there's a suicide.
It's the third suicide here.
Adouble suicide!

News and current affairs

When 52 people were killed in a suicide bombing on the London Underground the following year, the British, too, reacted with relative calm, having lived through years of Irish terrorist violence in the 1970's.
A similar suicide bombing two days later claimed the lives of 58 French soldiers.
The shooting in Newtown was not only especially horrific and heartbreaking, but is also part of an increasingly common pattern - a specific kind of murder-suicide that has been carefully studied by psychologists and psychiatrists.
Loners, often with paranoid tendencies, commit these heinous acts as part of their own suicide.
Implicitly or explicitly, people take the side of the victims, contribute by sending money to them, declare even suicide bombers legitimate, and move ever further away from support for and defense of Israel.
He was unable to re-engage his Israeli adversaries or control his suicide-bound Palestinian militants.
Why should the one region - and people - who run an orderly government, are not involved in murder, attacks on mosques, and suicide bombing of schoolchildren, be penalized?
Palestinian suicide bombings and Israeli attacks against Palestinian leaders came with such speed and ferocity that determining who was striking first and who was counterattacking became impossible.
Physicians are not required to be present at the suicide, and they are not allowed to administer the lethal drug.
In 2005, more than 125 Coalition troops were killed, while suicide bombing emerged as a new and increasingly common tactic of the insurgency.
It is even suggested that some countries might abandon EMU if this process continues - a threat that, if carried out, would amount to economic suicide.
How can we ignore that a high number of inmates commit suicide - self-inflicted capital punishment - to escape the inhumanity of their imprisonment?
Emperor Tewodros committed suicide, the British withdrew, and their commander, Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Napier, was made Baron Napier of Magdala.
The same is true, naturally, of a group of young men who decide to commit suicide and mass murder by flying commercial airliners into large public buildings in New York and Washington.
Refusing international help in such instances would mean electoral suicide for any government that faces a major bank collapse.
Any promise of deeper cuts would, they feel, be electoral suicide, even though their model of the economy tells them that the government should be smaller, and that the deficit is unnecessary and even damaging.
As the political scientist Robert Pape has shown in a careful study, resistance to foreign occupation is a prime motivation for suicide bombers.
The authorities called it a suicide, but survivors say that, for fun, the guards unscrewed one of the wooden planks from the wall and dropped it on Stus's head as he lay sleeping.
Two former presidents, Roh Tae-woo and Chun Doo-hwan, were prosecuted; another, Roh Moo-hyun, committed suicide.
As Winston Churchill said, the problem with committing political suicide is that you live to regret it.

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