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assisted suicides

assisted suicides is the plural of assisted suicide.

Meaning of assisted suicide

Noun

assisted suicide (countable and uncountable, plural assisted suicides)

  1. A suicide with the assistance of another individual; especially the suicide of a terminally ill person with the assistance of a physician.
    • It was daring of Lena Dunham, the show’s writer and creator, to introduce this particular plot twist. Assisted suicide is one of the subjects that American television shows steadily avoid.2014 March 27, Robin Marantz Henig, “Fictional Plotlines and Real Assisted Suicide”, in The Atlantic

Questions about assisted suicides

What is assisted suicides the plural of?
Assisted suicides is the plural of assisted suicide.

Words near assisted suicides in the dictionary

  1. assisted dying
  2. assisted living
  3. assisted reproductive technologies
  4. assisted reproductive technology
  5. assisted suicide
  6. assisted suicides
  7. assistedness
  8. assistence
  9. assister
  10. assisters
  11. assistest

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