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suicide watches

suicide watches is the plural of suicide watch.

Meaning of suicide watch

Noun

suicide watch (countable and uncountable, plural suicide watches)

  1. A period of monitoring of someone, especially a prisoner deemed likely to commit suicide, to ensure they do not attempt suicide.
    • be on suicide watch

Questions about suicide watches

What is suicide watches the plural of?
Suicide watches is the plural of suicide watch.

Words near suicide watches in the dictionary

  1. suicide vest
  2. suicide vests
  3. suicide victim
  4. suicide victims
  5. suicide watch
  6. suicide watches
  7. suicided
  8. suicidee
  9. suicidees
  10. suicidelike
  11. suicider

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suicide watches (page history and authors); suicide watch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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