self-murder

American  

[self-mur-der] / ˈsɛlfˈmɜr dər /

noun

plural

self-murders

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

• self-murderer noun

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2011

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)

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

Not that he would really incite the beasts to dispatch him, without a special inspiration, because that would have been self-murder; but this expresses the courage and desire of his soul.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban

Kongti, a devoted Buddhist, declined the fatal draught, on the ground that self-murder was in opposition to his religious sentiments.

From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles