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self-slaughter
[ self-slaw-ter ]
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- self-slaughtered adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of self-slaughter1
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Example Sentences
To her the plague was better than self-slaughter, as self-slaughter was better than pollution.
Perhaps he meditated breaking that instinctive canon which the Most High has so wisely fixed against "self-slaughter."
Even fever gives a man at least a week's grace, and sudden death generally implied self-slaughter.
Wealth, too, may become an incitement to self-slaughter from sheer disgust.
No imaginable crisis in his affairs could have convinced him to self-slaughter.
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