User:Jnestorius/Commit suicide
Dictionaries[edit]
- III To perpetrate or perform (in a bad sense)
- 6 to do
- a (something wrong or reprehensible)
- b (a folly, an error, etc.)
- d humorously (something put by the speaker on a level with an offence)
- 6 to do
onelook
- commit suicide
- MW to kill oneself
- cambridge.org a phrase used to mean “to kill yourself”, which is now considered offensive because it suggests that doing this is a crime
- commit
- Merriam-Webster.com 1. to carry into action deliberately : PERPETRATE [egg] commit a crime commit a sin
- Oxford Dictionaries 1. Carry out or perpetrate (a mistake, crime, or immoral act)
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 1. To do, perform, or perpetrate: commit a murder.
- Collins English Dictionary
- COBUILD 1. If someone commits a crime or a sin, they do something illegal or bad. 2. If someone commits suicide, they deliberately kill themselves.
- Eng [sorted historically] 6. to perform (a crime, error, etc); do; perpetrate
- Macmillan Dictionary 1. to do something illegal or morally wrong [commit suicide example]
- Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary 1. to do something illegal or something that is considered wrong [commit suicide separate idiom]
- suicide
- Lexico 1.1 A person who commits suicide.