suicide

Suizid, Selbsttötung

Das absichtliche Herbeiführen des eigenen Todes.

In einfachem Englisch: The act of deliberately causing your own death.

• Suicide prevention is part of their work.
• The report shows a fall in suicide rates.
• Her brother died by suicide several years ago.

Synonyme: taking one’s own life

Häufige Wendungen: suicide prevention, attempted suicide, die by suicide

Selbstmord, Suizid

Handlung, die wahrscheinlich die Zukunft einer Person, eine Organisation oder sogar ein Leben zerstört.

In einfachem Englisch: An action likely to destroy a person’s future, an organization, or possibly someone’s life.

• Ignoring those voters would be political suicide.
• Opening another shop now could be financial suicide.
• He knew that publishing the accusation might mean career suicide.

Synonyme: self-destruction

Häufige Wendungen: political suicide, career suicide, financial suicide

Suizident, Selbstmörder

Person, die ihren eigenen Tod absichtlich herbeigeführt hat.

In einfachem Englisch: A person who deliberately caused their own death.

• The old report described him as a suicide.
• The cemetery records listed three suicides that year.
• A suicide was sometimes denied burial in the village churchyard.

Synonyme: autocide, self-killer, self-murderer, self-slayer

Häufige Wendungen: a suspected suicide, burial of a suicide