self-slaughter

American  

[self-slaw-ter] / ˈsɛlfˈslɔ tər /

noun

1. suicide.

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Other Word Forms

• self-slaughtered adjective

Etymology

Origin of self-slaughter

First recorded in 1595–1605

Example Sentences

True, the major soliloquies are not the tortured revelations of a soul in anguish but merely philosophical ruminations; it seems unlikely that this spirited man would opt for self-slaughter.

From The Wall Street Journal

What can we learn from the way playwrights have dealt with the complex subject of self-slaughter, a topic Hamlet contemplates at length in what is the most famous speech in all of drama, his "To be or not to be" soliloquy?

From Los Angeles Times

Hence, they could not have tortured him into self-slaughter.

From Newsweek

What did Peter say after Iscariot's squalid self-slaughter?

From The Guardian

Although the Friends profess deep reverence for human life, their doctrine includes no specific condemnation of suicide; most Quakers were content to let God judge Morrison's self-slaughter.

From Time Magazine Archive