SUICIDE

[noun] - the act of killing yourself intentionally, or a person who has done thisAfter several years of mental illness, she committed suicide last month. [U]He'd attempted suicide three times before he actually succeeded. [U]The suicide rate among men between the ages of 16 and 25 has risen alarmingly in the past five years.She regarded suicide as the ultimate act of escapism. [U]His suicide left us all deeply shocked. [U]There is growing concern over the number of suicides that happen in prisons. [C]Compare manslaughter; murder.Suicide might also refer to any act which has the effect of causing your own defeat.As a leader he knows that it is political suicide to be seen to be weak and indecisive. [U]It would be suicide to take the best player off the field at this stage in the game. [U + to infinitive]A suicide pact is an agreement between two or more people to kill themselves together at the same time.The leader of the religious sect and thirty of his followers killed themselves in a suicide pact last year.