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self-injure

self-injure verb: to commit self-injury.

Verb

self-injure (third-person singular simple present self-injures, present participle self-injuring, simple past and past participle self-injured)

  1. (intransitive) To commit self-injury.

Forms of self-injure

third-person singular presentself-injures
present participleself-injuring
past participleself-injured
pastself-injured

Origin of self-injure

From self- + injure.

Questions about self-injure

What does self-injure mean?
Self-injure means to commit self-injury.
What part of speech is self-injure?
Self-injure is a verb.
What is the past tense of self-injure?
The past tense of self-injure is self-injured.

Words near self-injure in the dictionary

  1. self-initiated
  2. self-initiates
  3. self-initiating
  4. self-initiation
  5. self-initiations
  6. self-injure
  7. self-injured
  8. self-injurer
  9. self-injurers
  10. self-injures
  11. self-injuries

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