word-vault/dist/data/cards/su/suicide.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "suicide",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the act of killing yourself deliberately",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **commit suicide**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an **attempted suicide** *(= one in which the person survives)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **suicide bomber** *(= who expects to die while trying to kill other people with a bomb)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her death was ruled an apparent suicide."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Members of the sect committed mass suicide."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He slashed his wrists in a failed suicide attempt."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was put on suicide watch earlier in his prison term."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is no evidence that he is a suicide risk."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a suicide bomb attack on a military convoy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the questions surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the ritual suicide of a widow on her husband's funeral pyre"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Crime and punishment"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["attempted", "collective", "double"],
                "verb + suicide": ["commit", "attempt", "consider"],
                "suicide + noun": ["risk", "threat", "attempt"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a course of action that is likely to destroy your career, position in society, etc.",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It would have been **political suicide** for him to challenge the allegations in court."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That's asking them to commit career suicide."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Wearing shoes like that would be social suicide."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a person who commits suicide",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsuːɪsaɪd/",
                "audio": "su/suicide/suicide__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsuːɪsaɪd/",
                "audio": "su/suicide/suicide__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent.: from modern Latin suicida ‘act of suicide’, suicidium ‘person who commits suicide’, from Latin sui ‘of oneself’ + caedere ‘kill’."
}