suicide 1 of 2

as in murder
the act of deliberately killing oneself teenagers are more prone to suicide because they mistakenly believe their troubles are insurmountable

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suicide

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verb

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Noun
  • Additionally, authorities say Gonzalez-Nunez associated himself with Norteño gang members who were responsible for murders around the area.
    Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • That changed in February, when the state located the necessary drugs and planned to execute Thomas Creech, who was convicted of five murders in three states.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Permits for cutting down Christmas trees in national forests, a Thanksgiving weekend tradition for many Colorado families, are now on sale.
    John Meyer, The Denver Post, 9 Nov. 2024
  • The Clippers responded by cutting down its mistakes, not turning over the ball and making the right play, enabling them to build a substantial lead in the second half.
    Janis Carr, Orange County Register, 6 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Ghosts and vengeful spirits lurk and linger, tempting and prodding our characters toward self-destruction.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The Cleveland Browns are no strangers to self-destruction.
    Jim Ingraham, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Good post for a mid- to late-November afternoon: 70 to 100 yards back in timber and along the thickest, nastiest ditch that leads out to crops. 59) Don’t waste precious rut-hunting time.
    Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Yet, at least once, maybe twice a month, they get totally wasted and the wife calls me and rambles on incoherently.
    Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • But on Wednesday, a grand jury indicted her on the charge of assisting self-murder/manslaughter, a first-degree felony punishable by up to 30 years in prison.
    Frank Fernandez, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The initial charge of first-degree murder has been reduced to assisting self-murder/manslaughter.
    Frank Fernandez, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
Verb
  • The ones who butchered in a sling, murdering six people in cold blood, riddling them with bullets and then firing bullets into their heads is Hamas.
    Mick Krever, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Staff members from the Marine Mammal Stranding Center examine a common dolphin carcass that appears to have been butchered.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Nabatieh, once a noisy, compact city of 120,000, famous for the market and its yearly 10-day gathering for Ashura — when Shiite Muslims commemorate the 7th century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson — is now ghostly quiet.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
  • What begins as an inhumane interrogation turns into a true martyrdom: the wrong group of people has been kidnapped.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • The rebel spark in my heart, though, wasn’t completely snuffed.
    Lili Anolik, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
  • The wild gameplay that served him well in the season’s first half rubbed almost everyone the wrong way and after informally applying to be Jeff Probst’s future replacement, his torch was swiftly snuffed.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 24 Oct. 2024
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