Meanings
nounmurder by suicide (countable and uncountable, plural murders by suicide)
plural murders by suicide
- countableuncountableAn act (such as a suicide bombing) in which a person kills one or more other persons before, or while, killing himself or herself; the act of killing others and oneself in this way.
We may arrange for the best airport security in the world, but if you want to commit murder by suicide, you don’t have to board a plane to explode yourself and kill many people.
2006, Haim Harari, View from the Eye of the Storm: Terror And Reason in the Middle East, page 33
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