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suicided

suicided is the simple past and past participle of suicide.

Meaning of suicide

Verb

suicide (third-person singular simple present suicides, present participle suiciding, simple past and past participle suicided)

  1. (intransitive) To intentionally kill oneself.
    • "Her husband suicided three years ago. Just like a man!"1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 11, in Anne's House of Dreams
    Synonyms:
    an hero, catch the bus, commit hara-kiri, commit seppuku, commit sudoku, end one's life, kill oneself, off oneself, rope, ropemaxx
  2. (transitive) To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide (now especially as part of a conspiracy).
    • Have bought The Shanghai Chopsticks. Proprietor at first refused to sell, but when I ordered the boiling oil he became more reasonable. Editor reports that circulation is not what it ought to be. […] Will publish proclaimation, "Any person found not in possession of The Shanghai Chopsticks (current...1898 October 29, Punch, or the London charivari, page 196
  3. (ambitransitive, figuratively) To destroy or self-destruct.
    • At the conclusion of each wind, the movement of the driver's control lever back to the neutral position, and consequently the movement of the Ward Leonard controller back to its neutral position, firstly opens the directional contacts which isolate the generator field from the Ward Leonard exciter...1957, The Institute of Mineral Industries, Proceedings - Issues 181-182, page 315

See all 12 meanings of suicide

Adjective

suicided (not comparable)

  1. Having killed oneself or self-destructed.
    • We were living in a suicided city, among people hunted and weary and on the edge of despair, so that for once we could not look to the Chinese for help or draw from them resources ...1946, Richard Pertway Dobson, China Cycle, page 150
    • Children of a suicided parent also show a higher rate of behavioral, emotional, and self-destructive disturbance even into adulthood than those who have lost a parent through other forms of death, according to a review of suicide survivorship literature by Ness and Pfeffer (1990).1997, E. Betsy Ross, Life After Suicide: A Ray of Hope for Those Left Behind, →ISBN, page 187

Questions about suicided

What does suicided mean?
Suicided means having killed oneself or self-destructed.
What is suicided the simple past and past participle of?
Suicided is the simple past and past participle of suicide.
What part of speech is suicided?
Suicided is an adjective.

Words near suicided in the dictionary

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

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