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SELF-DESTRUCTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of killing yourself
Example:
it is a crime to commit suicide
Synonyms:
self-annihilation; self-destruction; suicide
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("self-destruction" is a kind of...):
kill; killing; putting to death (the act of terminating a life)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "self-destruction"):
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)
Derivation:
self-destroy; self-destruct (do away with oneself or itself)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of destroying yourself
Example:
his insistence was pure self-destruction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("self-destruction" is a kind of...):
destruction; devastation (the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists)
Derivation:
self-destroy; self-destruct (do away with oneself or itself)
