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self-destruction

DEFINITIONS OF: self-destruction

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n the act of destroying yourself

“his insistence was pure self-destruction”
Type of:
destruction, devastation
the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists

n the act of killing yourself

Synonyms:
self-annihilation, suicide
Types:
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assisted suicide
suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible
felo-de-se
an act of deliberate self destruction
hara-kiri, harakiri, harikari, seppuku
ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society
suttee
the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband
physician-assisted suicide
assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician
Type of:
kill, killing, putting to death
the act of terminating a life
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