noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a suicide attempt (= an attempt to kill yourself )
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He was admitted to hospital after a suicide attempt.
a suicide bomb (= the person carrying the bomb dies when it explodes )
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Each time there is a suicide bomb it is a new blow to peace.
assisted suicide
suicide bomber
suicide pact
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
attempted
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Pregnancy or childbirth. Attempted suicide .
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In summary, therefore, most special aftercare services have had no effect on repetition rates after attempted suicide .
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Therefore, the whole of this chapter has been devoted to discussion of this aspect of care of attempted suicide patients.
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A few days short of his fifteenth birthday, Gert attempted suicide , cutting his wrist and jumping from a third-floor window.
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They became involved after some of the cult's former members attempted suicide .
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Lizzy's attempted suicide had been whispered around the station by now, she was sure.
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Concluding comments Attempted suicide continues to present a very challenging problem for medical and psychiatric services.
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It is doubtful, however, whether they would prevent attempted suicide .
committed
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A man who had been living on his own committed suicide .
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Hoffman, after a colorful career as an activist for various causes, committed suicide .
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In a well publicised case a patient recently committed suicide while under the care of a clinical ecologist.
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I ... sort of ... committed suicide .
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A girl in the soap opera committed suicide with them.
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Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, chief military adviser to Gorbachev, committed suicide on Aug. 24.
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The defence claimed Mrs Armstrong could have taken the poison herself and committed suicide .
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They had two sons; the elder committed suicide in 1928 and the younger died in action in 1917.
committing
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Corbett related that he felt much like committing suicide himself at this point.
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Mum didn't want that to happen. Committing suicide was a mortal sin.
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In 1988 there were several well-publicised cases of young people committing suicide apparently because of unrequited love.
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Thus, a doctor is under a duty to refrain from any act which may aid his patient in committing suicide .
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Nor was there a difference in the proportion of those committing suicide who had previously been in touch with the psychiatric service.
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Young Londonderry men are committing suicide at a higher rate than almost any other group of people in the United Kingdom.
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This last revolutionary had cheated the State by committing suicide while awaiting execution, but was not allowed to cheat the guillotine.
economic
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It is nothing less than national economic and social suicide .
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It built the Central Valley Project to rescue the growers from economic suicide by groundwater overdraft.
high
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The Highlands has one of the highest suicide rates in the country and is plagued by huge numbers of fatal accidents.
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After a national report on the high suicide rate among gay and lesbian teens, in 1992 Gov.
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But California has what is probably the highest suicide rate in the world.
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There is a higher suicide rate among weight-loss surgery patients than there is among the morbidly obese.
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SHe'd heard about how gender meddling had been outlawed because of the high suicide rate among the successfully mutated.
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Of all groups, single males have the highest mortality rate-and suicide is increasingly the way they die.
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Young people have a much higher rate of suicide , smoking, and accidental death.
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Most disturbing of all is the high suicide rate among rural women.
mass
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That need not cause mass suicide among the contractors, or imply that none of these projects will be built.
political
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Sensing his authority had ebbed, Fujimori grimly took the only exit left: political suicide , a move that stunned everyone.
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To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide .
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The government believes it would be political suicide to allow pension contributions to rise above 30 percent.
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Hence Mr Yeltsin's dilemma: to persuade the deputies to commit political suicide without acting unconstitutionally.
■ NOUN
attempt
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There are several measures which might reduce the chances of a suicide attempt in an individual at risk.
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Shea said the sparse cell where Salvi is housed is designed to frustrate suicide attempts .
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The father continued the suicide attempt but he was rescued by police.
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Depression has been a lifelong struggle for me, and 17 years ago I was hospitalized after a suicide attempt .
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The court heard the girl has made several suicide attempts and is still receiving treatment.
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He sloshed around in a cold river in a halfhearted suicide attempt .
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Mr Jamshidi has recently left hospital after slashing his wrists in his own suicide attempt .
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He was taken to hospital on July 29 with bullet wounds to the chest, apparently the result of a suicide attempt .
bomb
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This development follows the first suicide bomb attack for two years.
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Each time there is a suicide bomb or attack we should point a finger at ourselves?
bomber
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Can suicide bombers really be considered cowards?
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Anonymous but infamous in death, they are the suicide bombers who killed 14 people last month in a Jerusalem market.
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The bomb, it said, had been planted by a suicide bomber , named as Abu Yasser.
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The homes of suicide bombers will be sealed, then destroyed, he said.
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A woman Tiger suicide bomber then assassinated Gandhi.
commit
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Read in studio Up to four farmers a week commit suicide in Britain.
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Every single psephologist, political pundit and pollster must now resign, be sacked, or better yet, commit suicide .
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I had read enough to know that the figures for anorexics who starve to death or commit suicide are frighteningly high.
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People, after all, are often involved in disputes and difficulties with their relatives, but only a minority commit suicide .
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Many commit suicide because they see no possible hope for the future.
mission
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His suicide mission came as a surprise to more people than just his family.
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As Delbert saw it, they went on suicide missions , which was just the kind of action he wanted.
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The powers-that-be decide to send you on a suicide mission - nice peeps, aren't they?
note
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Moore's suicide note was also read to the court.
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A suicide note was found on a china cabinet.
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Dollar bills, pound notes , they're suicide notes.
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An apparent suicide note found in the house on the day she died claimed the child had been fathered by another man.
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She was dead, left a suicide note .
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Eventually, they discovered the suicide note , which mentioned the name of the hotel.
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Even in his suicide note he couldn't bear to tell me.
pact
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At the moment they don't know whether this was an accident, a murder or a suicide pact .
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So they joined in a suicide pact which would rid them for ever of parental domination.
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Lowestoft is a town twinned with nowhere, although it is considering a suicide pact with Basildon.
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Desperate and afraid, they formed a suicide pact .
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Detectives are investigating whether it was an accident, a murder or a suicide pact .
rate
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The Highlands has one of the highest suicide rates in the country and is plagued by huge numbers of fatal accidents.
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And you know what they say about the holidays and the suicide rate .
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As a result 5,000 farmers are going out of business every year and the suicide rate for farmers has never been higher.
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After a national report on the high suicide rate among gay and lesbian teens, in 1992 Gov.
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But California has what is probably the highest suicide rate in the world.
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And their suicide rate is two to three times higher than ours in every age category.
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Since the closure of the tower, Pisa's alarming suicide rate has fallen.
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There is a higher suicide rate among weight-loss surgery patients than there is among the morbidly obese.
verdict
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Murder and suicide verdict after car park double shooting.
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Mr Barter recorded a suicide verdict and expressed his sympathy to Mr Banks' family.
■ VERB
assist
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In the United States, Oregon has a law permitting some assisted suicides .
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All this can make assisted suicide seem a reasonable escape from inevitable agony.
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The charge was dismissed on the ground that Michigan state law did not prohibit assisting some one to commit suicide .
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The author imagined assisted suicide to be a heavily regulated practice, to prevent abuse.
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Even so, she said, many of the people who come to the hospice ask about assisted suicide .
drive
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The noises in my head never stop and have nearly driven me to suicide .
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Kruger determines to drive him to suicide by whatever means at his disposal.
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Some sufferers are even driven to suicide .
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More than once, depression drove him to attempt suicide .
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Now that the lights are on I don't suspect that she drove him to suicide .
kill
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Anonymous but infamous in death, they are the suicide bombers who killed 14 people last month in a Jerusalem market.
lead
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In the long term production of serotonin is reduced, leading to depression most suicides have low serotonin levels.
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Depression is a leading cause of suicide in the elderly, and also affects mood, behavior and physical health.
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Whom should we therefore ban from public places for causing all the depression leading to so many suicides ?
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They seek short-term competitive advantage even when it leads to long-term suicide .
legalize
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Poenisch is leading a grass-roots campaign to persuade Michigan voters to legalize doctor-assisted suicide .
record
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It wasn't read out in court, but it lead the Coroner to record a verdict of suicide .
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The coroner recorded a verdict of suicide while she was suffering from depression.
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Mr Short recorded a verdict of suicide .
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Coroner Gordon Glasgow recorded a verdict of suicide .
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Mr Barter recorded a suicide verdict and expressed his sympathy to Mr Banks' family.
try
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Her brother Marco tried to commit suicide after we left.
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The second time, like the first, no one could say for certain she had been trying to commit suicide .
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I have tried to commit suicide many times, but I couldn't do it.
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Their eldest daughter, Elizabeth, 15, tried to commit suicide .
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It was because I went to a disco that he tried to commit suicide .
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Those who weren't constantly eating or in front of a mirror, were trying to commit suicide .
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She asked me why I tried to commit suicide .
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At the end of May 1944, she tried to commit suicide but was saved.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
attempted murder/suicide/rape etc
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All I care about is solving this murder, I mean this attempted murder.
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He was acquitted of rape, attempted murder, administering poison with intent and kidnapping.
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In summary, therefore, most special aftercare services have had no effect on repetition rates after attempted suicide.
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Redmond denied attempted murder but admitted wounding with intent.
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Several forces have also seen very sharp rises in attempted murders.
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The charges include the murder of Becky and the attempted murder of Katie in April 1991.
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The suspects were held Wednesday on suspicion of attempted murder, attempted burglary and conspiracy.
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We have cured hundreds of people from Chicago, Ill., from gunshot wounds inflicted in attempted murders and robberies.
commit suicide
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Isaacs denied trying to help his brother commit suicide.
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After the cremains were found last June in a collapsed storage locker, Vieira committed suicide.
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But Grundberg committed suicide June 22, 1994&.
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Elaine Blond observed that he had committed suicide by stages.
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I have tried to commit suicide many times, but I couldn't do it.
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Only by restoring his muscle spasm had he been able to conquer the impulse to commit suicide.
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The Gamester also ended tragically when Beverly, a gambler, falsely accused of murder, committed suicide by taking poison.
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The Minister of Law and Order denied any police responsibility and suggested that many of those who died had committed suicide.
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The second time, like the first, no one could say for certain she had been trying to commit suicide.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Barry threatened to commit suicide if she refused to marry him.
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Police are treating the man's death as suicide .
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Stephen required hospital treatment after his suicide attempt.
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There is grave concern about the number of teenage suicides recorded last year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He told me the only way he could get checked in to a hospital was by attempting suicide .
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In the United States, 35 states explicitly make doctor-assisted suicide a crime, including New York.
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Moore's suicide note was also read to the court.
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Rumours spread that you had committed suicide .
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This would particularly apply where the risk of suicide is judged to be high.
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To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide .