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self-create

self-create verb: to create oneself or itself.

Verb

self-create (third-person singular simple present self-creates, present participle self-creating, simple past and past participle self-created)

  1. (intransitive) To create oneself or itself.
    • To be is to self-create, renovate, and endure.
  2. (transitive) To create (something) on one's own, without help from others.
    • Have you tried doing it yourself? It's not easy. I was hoping to illustrate this article with some self-created buzzwords for leftwingers to use. The first one I came up with was "molehill mountaineer", a pejorative term to describe the sort of perpetually furious rightwing weevil who spends their...2010 August 30, Charlie Brooker, “Buzzwords for blowhards”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 May 2023

Forms of self-create

third-person singular presentself-creates
present participleself-creating
past participleself-created
pastself-created

Origin of self-create

From self- + create.

Questions about self-create

What does self-create mean?
Self-create means to create oneself or itself.
What part of speech is self-create?
Self-create is a verb.
What is the past tense of self-create?
The past tense of self-create is self-created.

Words near self-create in the dictionary

  1. self-correction
  2. self-corrects
  3. self-coup
  4. self-coups
  5. self-covered
  6. self-create
  7. self-created
  8. self-creates
  9. self-creating
  10. self-crit
  11. self-critical

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