| NOUN | act | self-destruction, suicide, self-annihilation | the act of killing yourself |
|---|---|---|---|
| act | self-destruction | the act of destroying yourself |
| Meaning | The act of killing yourself. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | suicide, self-annihilation | |
| Narrower | assisted suicide | suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible |
| felo-de-se | An act of deliberate self destruction | |
| harakiri, hara-kiri, harikari, seppuku | ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword | |
| suttee | The act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband | |
| Broader | killing, kill, putting to death | The act of terminating a life |
| Spanish | autodestrucción, suicidio | |
| Catalan | suïcidi | |
| Verbs | self-destruct, self-destroy | do away with oneself or itself |
| Meaning | The act of destroying yourself. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "his insistence was pure self-destruction" | |
| Broader | destruction, devastation | The termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists |
| Verbs | self-destruct, self-destroy | do away with oneself or itself |
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