The difference between Murder and Suicide
When used as nouns, murder means an act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human, whereas suicide means intentional killing of oneself.
When used as verbs, murder means to deliberately kill (a person or persons), whereas suicide means to kill oneself intentionally.
check bellow for the other definitions of Murder and Suicide
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Murder as a noun (countable):
An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.
Examples:
"There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone."
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Murder as a noun (uncountable):
The crime of deliberate killing of another human.
Examples:
"The defendant was charged with murder."
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Murder as a noun (uncountable, legal, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule):
The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.
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Murder as a noun (uncountable, used as a predicative noun):
Something terrible to endure.
Examples:
"This headache is murder."
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Murder as a noun (countable, collective):
A group of crows;
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Murder as a verb:
To deliberately kill (a person or persons).
Examples:
"The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband."
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Murder as a verb (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic):
To defeat decisively.
Examples:
"Our team is going to murder them."
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Murder as a verb:
To botch or mangle.
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Murder as a verb (figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic):
To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one's anger at somebody).
Examples:
"He's torn my best shirt. When I see him, I'll murder him!"
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Murder as a verb (figuratively, colloquial, British):
to devour, ravish.
Examples:
"I could murder a [[hamburger]] right now."
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Suicide as a noun (uncountable):
Intentional killing of oneself.
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Suicide as a noun (countable):
A particular instance of a person intentionally killing himself or herself, or of multiple people doing so.
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Suicide as a noun (countable):
A person who has intentionally killed him/herself.
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Suicide as a noun (figuratively):
An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death is not the aim of the action.
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Suicide as a noun (countable):
A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
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Suicide as a noun:
A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360 round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.
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Suicide as a noun (countable):
A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by a return to the start, with no pause between one sprint and the next.
Examples:
"The coach makes us run suicides at the end of each basketball practice."
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Suicide as a noun:
A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
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Suicide as a noun (attributive):
pertaining to a suicide bombing; as ,
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Suicide as a verb (intransitive):
To kill oneself intentionally.
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Suicide as a verb (transitive):
To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide .
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Suicide as a verb:
To self-destruct.