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