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    SELF-DESTRUCTION

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The act of killing yourselfplay

    Example:

    it is a crime to commit suicide

    Synonyms:

    self-annihilation; self-destruction; suicide

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("self-destruction" is a kind of...):

    kill; killing; putting to death (the act of terminating a life)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "self-destruction"):

    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)

    hara-kiri; harakiri; harikari; seppuku (ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society)

    suttee (the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband)

    Derivation:

    self-destroy; self-destruct (do away with oneself or itself)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    The act of destroying yourselfplay

    Example:

    his insistence was pure self-destruction

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("self-destruction" is a kind of...):

    destruction; devastation (the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists)

    Derivation:

    self-destroy; self-destruct (do away with oneself or itself)

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