commit suicide

Anglais

Étymologie

(Siècle à préciser) Composé de commit et de suicide.

Locution verbale

commit suicide \kə.ˈmɪt ˈsuː.ɪ.ˌsaɪd\

1. (Mort) Se suicider.
   • I almost committed suicide at sixteen because I didn’t think he loved me, though he later assured me that he did in a hot and heavy phone call: under his influence and Salinger’s I had walked out into the ocean prepared to drown. — (Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, « The Pedophilic Teacher », Continuum, 2006 (2002), Londres, page 15)

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Synonymes

• kill oneself

Hyponymes

• drown
• hang

Prononciation

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