Term Gallery logo

Meanings of kill oneself in English

To end one's own life purposefully.

Strain oneself more than is healthy.

Synonyms
Examples for "suicide"
Examples for "suicide"
1
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said it was essential suicide risk was reduced.
BBC
2
Groups working to help prevent suicide throughout the north-west have money problems.
The Irish Times
3
A military official and state media said it was a suicide attack.
Reuters
4
Her passions include suicide prevention, violence prevention, healthy relationships, housing and research.
Radio NZ
5
In severe cases, it has been known to result in suicide attempt.
Pubmed
1
The target had two options: return to China promptly, or commit suicide.
Radio NZ
2
In that case all that's left for me is to commit suicide.
The girl who played with fire
3
The legislation would also create an offence of incitement to commit suicide.
Radio NZ
4
Goodspeed is not the first former reality show participant to commit suicide.
Reuters
5
What do you think of people who commit suicide? She'd asked me.
Welcome to the N.H.K.
1
For it does need a strong dash of heroism to take one's own life.
Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1.
2
To take one's own life is a sin, that is if the person is in his right mind.
The Key to Peace
3
She had been taught that it was wicked to take one's own life, and that God was always kind.
A Spinner in the Sun
4
If there is a legal right to take one's own life, there is no constitutional right, Michael Cush SC argued.
The Irish Times
5
He doesn't believe in God, or that it is wrong to take one's own life, and he says he never wanted children.
Australia Felix
Usage of kill oneself in English
1
Now it is unlawful to kill oneself, as stated above (Q.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
2
Must one kill oneself to escape this visitation?
Under Western Eyes
3
He points out that it is now very difficult to kill oneself by overdosing on tablets -instead they ruin the functioning of their liver.
The Guardian
4
This has always seemed to me (not that it's any of my business, mind you) a particularly thoughtless and selfish way to kill oneself.
The Lost Continent
5
But when the chances of being killed oneself are equal-well , Idon'tsee anything in it.
The Keeper of the Door
6
(5) Whether it is lawful to kill oneself?
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...