SUICIDING Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

suiciding

verb

present participle of suicide

as in murdering

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It’s been over three decades since Wood was convicted of murdering six young women and girls and burying their bodies near El Paso – crimes for which he was nicknamed the Desert Killer.

— Irenie Forshaw, TheWeek, 1 July 2026
Ciarre Campbell, brother of veteran NFL lineman Calais Campbell, has been charged with murdering their 71-year-old mother, Nateal, inside her Atlanta home.

— Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

Definition of murdering

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Once again, no one is here for the play-acting, the time-wasting, the cheating.

— Stuart James, New York Times, 5 July 2026
Rather than simply reducing power use across the board, the system attempts to identify exactly when machinery is wasting energy and proposes operational changes that can reduce consumption without disrupting productivity.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 4 July 2026

Definition of wasting

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Or tech companies forcing regular people to foot the electricity bills for their environment-destroying data centers!

— Rebekah Taussig, Time, 7 July 2026
Many older interceptor missiles use blast-fragmentation warheads, detonating near the incoming missile and destroying it with high-speed metal fragments.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026

Definition of destroying

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Murdaugh, once a powerful personal injury attorney in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, was convicted in 2023 of killing his wife, Maggie, 52, and their younger son, Paul, 22, at the family’s hunting estate in June 2021.

— Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
Shiite and Sunni Muslims have been killing each other for centuries, and the status of women in some Muslims countries is deplorable.

— Kenneth Seeskin, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026

Definition of killing

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Baking soda works by absorbing odors and neutralizing musty, acidic smells from mildew, mold, and bacteria.

— Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 4 July 2026
The key will be neutralizing the quality of the chances the team gives up, as Gotham got several high-quality chances.

— Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026

Definition of neutralizing

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Sakenis blocked two shots after finishing 11th in Division 1 in blocks per game last season.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 7 July 2026
With just four laps remaining, there was every prospect of the race finishing under caution as there wouldn’t be time to reorder the cars and then conduct a restart.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 6 July 2026

Definition of finishing

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For Cape Verde, Vozinha was excellent at snuffing out the few good chances Spain created on his way to becoming an Instagram phenomenon after one of the World Cup’s great results.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 24 June 2026
Despite Tiffany Ervin wanting to blindside Rizo Velovic and flush out his idol, the group remained in lockstep on snuffing Rick's torch.

— Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 14 May 2026

Definition of snuffing

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Larry Hayes, 86, and Bill Moniz, 79, hit the tennis courts in Mountain View three to four times a week — whacking balls across the net as teammates for one to three hours a week.

— Panashe Matemba-Mutasa, Mercury News, 27 May 2026
And the crowd clearly expected that pucks whacking the nets would be at a premium in this series, too.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 May 2026

Definition of whacking

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