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autocide
1. Another form of suicide; that is, “self-killing” or “killing one’s self”.
2. Someone has suggested that it means “suicide by crashing one’s automobile”; however, the “auto” in autocide refers to “self” not the auto- in automobile.
3. Despite the above information, some dictionaries define this term as, "suicide by crashing the vehicle one is driving."
2. Someone has suggested that it means “suicide by crashing one’s automobile”; however, the “auto” in autocide refers to “self” not the auto- in automobile.
3. Despite the above information, some dictionaries define this term as, "suicide by crashing the vehicle one is driving."
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“autocide”
Suicide by jumping out of a window.
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auto-, aut-
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-cide, -cides, -cidal
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fenestra-, fenestr-
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Story Translation: The Autocide That Was Never Accomplished
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Story Translations Listed
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