🇬🇧 Suicide meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

“Suicide” can mean doing something that is almost sure to make you lose, fail, or be defeated, as if you are ruining your own chances on purpose. In this softer, non-violent sense, people might use it in games or sports to describe a move that is so bad it practically hands victory to the other side.

Bringing a trumpet as your “quiet toy” to study hall was concentration suicide.

Joining a whisper contest with a sudden sneeze attack was competition suicide.

Using a glitter cannon in your bedroom was cleanliness suicide.

Letting your little brother be in charge of the remote control was movie-night suicide.

Promising to water every plant in the school by yourself was free-time suicide.

On the cold park bench, he knocks his queen into the open — a suicide. The crowd gasps as that suicide gives the other side a clear path. He whispers suicide. He grins; the next move, a suicide, is his king. Checkmate follows, and he bows. People call it suicide, a brave mistake, and he laughs, oddly proud.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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