Timeline for Difference between "commit suicide" and "suicide"
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| Sep 24, 2015 at 21:46 | comment | added | Oldcat | I'd say that if anyone does use suicided it would be a restricted sort of jargon to save words - like using KIA in military casualty reports. It is absent from normal speech or writing. | |
| Sep 24, 2015 at 20:25 | comment | added | avpaderno | They don't say anything, except "verb; intentionally kill oneself: she suicided in a very ugly manner." | |
| Sep 24, 2015 at 19:18 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | The citation is from a Star Trek novel?! | |
| Sep 24, 2015 at 19:11 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Suicide may be reported as a verb by the OED, but I've never heard nor read anyone say: "He suicided" or "He suicided himself", it's either: "He committed suicide" or "He killed himself". I'd be interested to hear the date of "She suicided in a very ugly manner", does OED say it is archaic/obsolete/rare/informal? | |
| Jun 26, 2011 at 19:09 | history | answered | avpaderno | CC BY-SA 3.0 |