Synonyms of martyrdom

martyrdom

noun

as in suicide

the suffering and death of a martyr

He suffered martyrdom for his religious beliefs.

Related Words

• suicide
• fatality
• casualty
• destruction
• fate
• self-murder
• self-slaughter
• self-destruction
• grave
• dissolution
• demise
• doom
• decease
• passing
• exit
• passage
• expiration
• massacre
• sleep
• assassination
• annihilation
• extermination
• execution
• killing
• end
• curtains
• slaughter
• quietus
• expiry
• great divide
• ending
• ruin

Dissimilar Words

• life
• existence
• creation
• rise
• birth
• genesis
• origination
• nativity

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of martyrdom

Stewart has been clear that the goal is not martyrdom in the kitchen. — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 June 2026

Several Death Match players were later arrested, imprisoned, and killed, though not in the immediate act of public martyrdom that later retellings of their ordeal sometimes suggest. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 19 June 2026

Was Pelley going for martyrdom or just angry? — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026

During Muharram a community group will often stage a passion play (taʿziyyah) that reenacts the events of Ḥusayn’s martyrdom. — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 May 2026