autocide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who commits suicide.
Example Sentences
- "Generally, autocide is most effective when applied to restricted populations (islands, etc.), but can be effective on parts of continents."
- "Five different autocides have been isolated from Myxococcus xanthus."
- ""Autocide is becoming the second most popular method for older teens to commit suicide," she said."
- "For as Saint Auguſtine reaſons well againſt ſuch Autocides and ſelfe murtherers, it is rather a token of puſillanimity and lacke of courage in them, than otherwayes a marke of true reſolution to doe ſo; […]"
- "The irony of Johnson's title is that only two years later this most professional of artists - poet, novelist, short-story writer, filmmaker, dramatist, and sports journalist - killed himself at the age of forty-two. The autobiographer as autocide."