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antisuicide

antisuicide adjective: opposing or preventing suicide.

Adjective

antisuicide (not comparable)

  1. Opposing or preventing suicide.
    • Under attack by the eighteenth-century Rationalists, antisuicide laws gradually fell into disuse.1992, George Howe Colt, The Enigma of Suicide
    • An antisuicide pact, too, seems at first glance to be collaborative: the therapist conducts therapy under the terms of an agreement made with a patient[…]1999, Jürgen Kind, Paul Foulkes, Suicidal Behaviour

Origin of antisuicide

From anti- + suicide.

Questions about antisuicide

What does antisuicide mean?
Antisuicide means opposing or preventing suicide.
What part of speech is antisuicide?
Antisuicide is an adjective.

Words near antisuicide in the dictionary

  1. antisuffragism
  2. antisuffragist
  3. antisuffragists
  4. antisugar
  5. antisuicidal
  6. antisuicide
  7. antisuit
  8. antisun
  9. antisuns
  10. antisunward
  11. antisunwise

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