[
US
/ˈsɛɫfdɪˈstɹəkts/
]
NOUN
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the act of killing yourself
it is a crime to commit suicide -
the act of destroying yourself
his insistence was pure self-destruction
How To Use self-destruction In A Sentence
- What are the possibilities and risks of according spirituality some therapeutic value for those on the edge of the abyss of self-destruction?
- Food obsession falls under the form of self-sabotage I call compulsive self-sabotage, the hardest kind of self-destruction to shake. The Truth About Beauty
- When they exposed cancer cells to these phytonutrients, the cells self-destructed technically, such self-destruction is called apoptosis. The Fiber35 Diet
- According to the rules that drive this particular fetish, anything short of self-destruction is just going through the motions.
- He serves as her obligatory romantic interest, the guy who saves her from self-destruction.
- The time will soon come; grief and famine have already sapped the foundations of my being; a very short time, and I shall have passed away; unstained by the crime of self-destruction, unstung by the memory of degradation, my spirit will throw aside the miserable coil, and find such recompense as fortitude and resignation may deserve. The Last Man
- This wayward thinking has led us down the “more is better” path of self-absorption and, for some, self-destruction. Lighten Up
- Always clowning around, teasing girls, and getting into scraps with others, he's heading for self-destruction.
- His mother on discovering this note pinned to her chair gave way to very natural alarm and rushed upstairs to her darling, with whom she remonstrated in terms deservedly severe, pointing out the folly and wickedness of self-destruction and urging that such thoughts were unfit for one of his tender years, for he was then barely thirteen. On Nothing and Kindred Subjects
- They've been chosen as subjects because they whirl around in a chaos of self-destruction. Times, Sunday Times