suicides
SaySOO-i-sydz/ˈsuɪˌsaɪdz/UK/ˈs(j)uːɪˌsaɪdz/
- 1Plural of suicide.
Researchers analyzed trends in suicides across several decades of public records.
The hotline was set up after a cluster of suicides shook the small town.
Note
The plural belongs only to the countable uses. The act in the abstract takes no plural, so suicides means separate cases, or the people who died by their own hand. The same plural also counts things far from death: reckless moves that could sink a person or a company, a diabolo trick, and, in US slang, soda-fountain drinks that mix every available flavor.
suicides is a form of suicide
suicide, noun: The deliberate act of ending one's own life, or an instance of this. Full entry
- Forms
- suicidesuicides plural
- Spelling
- suicide → suicides: add -s
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