suicide : Idioms & Phrases

Index

assisted suicide

  • noun suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible
WordNet

commit suicide

  • verb kill oneself
    • the terminally ill patient committed suicide
WordNet

physician-assisted suicide

  • noun assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician
WordNet

suicide bomber

  • noun a terrorist who blows himself up in order to kill or injure other people
WordNet

suicide bombing

  • noun a terrorist bombing carried out by someone who does not hope to survive it
WordNet

suicide mission

  • noun killing or injuring others while annihilating yourself; usually accomplished with a bomb
    martyr operation; sacrifice operation.
WordNet

suicide pact

  • noun an agreement by two or more people to commit suicide together at a given place and time
    • the two lovers killed themselves in a suicide pact
WordNet

suicide pill

  • noun a poison pill with potentially catastrophic implications for the company it is intended to protect
WordNet

suicide squeeze

  • noun the runner on third base starts home as the pitcher delivers the ball
    suicide squeeze.
WordNet

suicide squeeze play

  • noun the runner on third base starts home as the pitcher delivers the ball
    suicide squeeze.
WordNet