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

The tradition will now pass to his own son, who now also takes part in commemorating the martyrdom of Hussein through the mausoleum replicas. — ABC News, 25 June 2026

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