killing
noun
the act of a person or thing that kills.
self-killing
-
a word derived from
killing.
Example Sentences
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Bushnell’s and Azzarello’s deaths both resonate with and differ from these instances of self-killing — which are in large part responses to colonial and state violence, contestations of unlivable structural inequalities — in significant ways.
From Salon ● May 4, 2024
