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self-deaths

self-deaths is the plural of self-death.

self-deaths is the third-person singular simple present indicative of self-death.

Meaning of self-death

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.

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Questions about self-deaths

What is self-deaths the plural of?
Self-deaths is the plural of self-death.

Words near self-deaths in the dictionary

  1. self-deals
  2. self-dealt
  3. self-death
  4. self-deathed
  5. self-deathing
  6. self-deaths
  7. self-debate
  8. self-deceit
  9. self-deceive
  10. self-deceived
  11. self-deceiver

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