Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of destroying oneself or itself.
- noun Suicide.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The destruction of one's self, or of itself.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The destruction of one's self; self-murder; suicide.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
voluntary destruction of something by itself.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of killing yourself
- noun the act of destroying yourself
Etymologies
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Examples
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Are we in what Marx described as the self-destruction of finance-dominated advanced Capitalism?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Kevin Zeese 2011
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Without suitable restraints, humans -- both in society and individually -- were powerless to resist the entropic charge toward self-destruction.
Matt J. Rossano: Alexander Hamilton's Religion: A Temperate Example For Today's Fractured World Matt J. Rossano 2011
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I think every time anybody seems to leave the show, it's, from my perspective, there was a little self-destruction happening.
WATCH: Chef Mary Sue Milliken On 'Top Chef Masters' Anna Almendrala 2011
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I think every time anybody seems to leave the show, it's, from my perspective, there was a little self-destruction happening.
WATCH: Chef Mary Sue Milliken On 'Top Chef Masters' Anna Almendrala 2011
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I think every time anybody seems to leave the show, it's, from my perspective, there was a little self-destruction happening.
WATCH: Chef Mary Sue Milliken On 'Top Chef Masters' Anna Almendrala 2011
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I don't take any pleasure in America's self-destruction, currently being helped along by Democrats.
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He could give in, give up, and become like Charlie, and at least enjoy his self-destruction.
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Without suitable restraints, humans -- both in society and individually -- were powerless to resist the entropic charge toward self-destruction.
Matt J. Rossano: Alexander Hamilton's Religion: A Temperate Example For Today's Fractured World Matt J. Rossano 2011
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McCallister is driven to self-destruction by vanity, jealousy, and self-loathing.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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This wayward thinking has led us down the “more is better” path of self-absorption and, for some, self-destruction.
Lighten Up Peter Walsh 2011
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word self-destruction
"Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own."
-David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
:) Good quote.
July 28, 2009