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suicidally en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English suicidal Middle English -ly English -ly English suicidally From suicidal + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a suicidal fashion.
   • My father did not magnanimously toss fish to the admiring multitudes, and most likely he did not beckon to the catfish, which then leapt suicidally into our boat. 1999, Michael Pearson, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx, page 56:
   • “Misled how?” I toss this over in my mind as my fork tosses the murg phall, a suicidally hot Bangalore-style chicken curry designed for masochistic European taste, slowly oxidizing in my plate. 2010, Donald W. Bacon, Followed by Madness:
2. In terms of or by means of suicide.
   • To accusations that her leap from her prison tower was suicidally motivated, she replies scornfully that anybody with any sense prefers to try for freedom instead of remaining in prison. 1984, Sharon Scholl, Death and the Humanities, page 154:
   • There can be a suicidally motivated parent who wishes to take the children with him or her. 2007, John H. Trestrail, III, Criminal Poisoning, page 63:

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