1. (n.) The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.

2. (adv.) One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.

3. (adv.) Ruin of one's own interests.

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