self-murder
Americannoun
plural
self-murders-
the act of ending one's own life; suicide (sometimes used in historical contexts).
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any action that is highly destructive to oneself or one's ambitions.
Other Word Forms
- self-murderer noun
Example Sentences
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And it has become frighteningly common for Americans to find their way into despair and self-murder.
From Washington Post
There were a couple of superficial reasons why Kenneth Salter/Knopp should have committed something that, in his earlier Victorian days, was called the crime of “self-murder”.
From The Guardian
These found the quickest and surest escape in what Germans call selbstmord, self-murder.
From Time
It may seem perverse that the period of spring and early summer, as the psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison puts it in her splendid book “Night Falls Fast,” should contain “a capacity for self-murder that winter less often has.”
From New York Times
The stakes involved in figuring out the dynamics of self-murder seem only to rise with time.
From New York Times
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