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Presuicide vs. Suicide — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Presuicide and Suicide

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Definitions

Presuicide

Occurring before suicide.

Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Mental disorders (including depression, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety disorders), nihilistic beliefs, physical disorders (such as chronic fatigue syndrome) and substance use disorders (including alcohol use disorder and the use of and withdrawal from benzodiazepines) are risk factors.

Suicide

The action of killing oneself intentionally
He committed suicide at the age of forty
Drug-related suicides

Suicide

A running drill consisting of a sprint to a set point (especially a line on a basketball court) and back to the start, immediately followed by additional sprints of lengthening distances
We shot free throws and if we missed we ran suicides

Suicide

Intentionally kill oneself
She suicided in a very ugly manner
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Suicide

The act or an instance of intentionally killing oneself.

Suicide

The destruction or ruin of one's own interests
It is professional suicide to involve oneself in illegal practices.

Suicide

One who dies by suicide.

Suicide

To kill oneself; die by suicide.

Suicide

Relating to, involving, or resulting in one's voluntary death.
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Suicide

(uncountable) Intentional killing of oneself.

Suicide

(countable) A particular instance of a person intentionally killing themself, or of multiple people doing so.

Suicide

(countable) A person who has intentionally killed themself.

Suicide

(figuratively) An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death is not the aim of the action.
Political suicide

Suicide

A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.

Suicide

A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.

Suicide

(countable) A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by a return to the start, with no pause between one sprint and the next.
The coach makes us run suicides at the end of each basketball practice.

Suicide

A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.

Suicide

(attributive) Pertaining to a suicide bombing.
Suicide belt
Suicide vest

Suicide

(intransitive) To kill oneself intentionally.

Suicide

(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.

Suicide

To self-destruct.

Suicide

The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.

Suicide

One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.

Suicide

Ruin of one's own interests.

Suicide

The act of killing yourself;
It is a crime to commit suicide

Suicide

A person who kills himself intentionally

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