suiciding

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

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