to attempt (try) a suicide

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• Suicide (game) — Suicide (sometimes abbreviated to suey ) is a game typically played by children and teenagers. The rules vary widely from place to place; those given below are not necessarily a standard form of the rules.etupSuicide requires at least two players …   Wikipedia

• attempt — at|tempt1 W1S2 [əˈtempt] n 1.) an act of trying to do something, especially something difficult attempt to do sth ▪ All attempts to control inflation have failed. ▪ The protesters made no attempt to resist arrest. ▪ his first unsuccessful attempt …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• attempt */*/*/ — I UK [əˈtempt] / US noun [countable] Word forms attempt : singular attempt plural attempts 1) an effort to do something one last desperate attempt The government has made no attempt to avert the crisis. attempt on: an attempt on the world record… …   English dictionary

• attempt — at|tempt1 [ ə tempt ] noun count *** an effort to do something: one last desperate attempt The government has made no attempt to avert the crisis. attempt on: an attempt on the world record attempt at: It s his fourth attempt at flying a balloon… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• suicide — noun (C, U) 1 the act of killing yourself: attempt suicide (=try tokill yourself) | commit suicide (=kill yourself): Gill committed suicide last year after losing her job. see kill 1 2 political/social suicide something you do that ruins your… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• attempt*/*/ — [əˈtempt] noun [C] I 1) an effort to do something the president s final attempt to reach a settlement with the rebel forces[/ex] an attempt on the world record[/ex] It s his fourth attempt at flying a balloon around the world.[/ex] 2) an attack… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• Teenage suicide — is the act of self killing by a teenager. Although the suicide rate among youth significantly decreased in the mid 1990s, suicide deaths in the United States remain high in the 15 to 24 age group with 3,971 suicides in 2001 and over 132,000… …   Wikipedia

• Religious views of suicide — There are a variety of religious views of suicide.JudaismJudaism has traditionally, in light of its great emphasis on the sanctity of life, viewed suicide as one of the most serious of sins. Suicide has always been forbidden by Jewish law in all… …   Wikipedia

• 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt — Further information: Islamic Extremism in the United States Coordinates: 40°45′29″N 73°59′09″W / 40.758056°N 73.985768°W …   Wikipedia

• Jumper (suicide) — A jumper, in police parlance, is a person who commits suicide by jumping from a height. A frequent scenario is that the jumper will sit on an elevated highway as police attempt to talk him down. Cases*In August 2004 in Japan, a man jumped from… …   Wikipedia

• Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note Queer — by William S. Burroughs (1985)    Queer is a transitional novel between the hardboiled prose of junky and the “routines” of naked lunch.    Queer can be used as an alternative to Junky, the text used for the junk paradigm as a blueprint for… …   Encyclopedia of Beat Literature