self-murder

American  

[self-mur-der] / ˈsɛlfˈmɜr dər /

noun

self-murders plural

1. the act of ending one's own life; suicide (sometimes used in historical contexts).

2. any action that is highly destructive to oneself or one's ambitions.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• self-murderer
  noun

Inflected Forms

noun

• self-murders
  plural

Example Sentences

But why were people prosecuted for attempted "self-murder" and how did things change?

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2011

Toleration, in that instance, would have been self-murder, and many other examples might be alleged, in which their necessary measures of self-defence have been exaggerated into cruelty, and their most indispensable precautions distorted into persecution.

From Orations by Adams, John Quincy

Here, too, we are freed, at the commencement, from all supposition of self-murder.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Willis, Nathaniel Parker

The Hebrews in particular had an aversion to self-murder, and during a period in their history of 4000 years there were only eight or ten suicides recorded.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

Toleration, in that instance, would have been self-murder, and many other examples might be alleged, in which their necessary measures of self-defense have been exaggerated into cruelty, and their most indispensable precautions distorted into persecution.

From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various