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self-death

self-death noun: suicide.

Noun

self-death (countable and uncountable, plural self-deaths)

  1. (euphemistic) Suicide.
    • Psychiatry may have a name for this form of cessation, but it isn't hard to see something of that notion in the self-deaths of creative artists who have either sought to push the very edges of corporeal existence or who have died because they couldn't find a way of truly validating their talents...2020, Said Shahtahmasebi, Hatim A. Omar, The Broader View of Suicide, page 101
  2. Apoptosis.

Verb

self-death (third-person singular simple present self-deaths, present participle self-deathing, simple past and past participle self-deathed)

  1. (euphemistic, rare) To commit suicide.

Forms of self-death

Noun
pluralself-deaths
alternative formselfdeath
Verb
third-person singular presentself-deaths
present participleself-deathing
past participleself-deathed
pastself-deathed

Origin of self-death

From self- + death.

Questions about self-death

What does self-death mean?
Self-death means suicide.
What part of speech is self-death?
Self-death can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of self-death?
The plural of self-death is self-deaths.

Words near self-death in the dictionary

  1. self-culture
  2. self-deal
  3. self-dealing
  4. self-deals
  5. self-dealt
  6. self-death
  7. self-deathed
  8. self-deathing
  9. self-deaths
  10. self-debate
  11. self-deceit

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