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self-immolate

self-immolate verb: to set oneself on fire, especially as a form of protest.

Verb

self-immolate (third-person singular simple present self-immolates, present participle self-immolating, simple past and past participle self-immolated)

  1. (intransitive) To set oneself on fire, especially as a form of protest.
    • A woman asked, hesitantly: “Is he the one who … self-immolated?”2019 April 15, J Oliver Conroy, “A lawyer set himself on fire to protest climate change. Did anyone care?”, in The Guardian

Forms of self-immolate

third-person singular presentself-immolates
present participleself-immolating
past participleself-immolated
pastself-immolated

Origin of self-immolate

From self- + immolate.

Questions about self-immolate

What does self-immolate mean?
Self-immolate means to set oneself on fire, especially as a form of protest.
What part of speech is self-immolate?
Self-immolate is a verb.
What is the past tense of self-immolate?
The past tense of self-immolate is self-immolated.

Words near self-immolate in the dictionary

  1. self-imitated
  2. self-imitates
  3. self-imitating
  4. self-imitation
  5. self-imitations
  6. self-immolate
  7. self-immolated
  8. self-immolates
  9. self-immolating
  10. self-immolation
  11. self-immolations

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