Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Self-destruction.
- noun Loss of self-awareness, as in a mystical state.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Annihilation by one's own acts; annihilation of one's desires.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of killing yourself
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Examples
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Is there a connection between an unexamined life and the pull of self-annihilation?
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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I became a voracious reader of the literature on the act of self-annihilation.
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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This is the behavior of someone with a subliminal desire for total self-annihilation.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Anthony Weiner and Why Powerful Men Self-Destruct Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Those who weather the storm sometimes emerge as people of talent and creativity; the birth of creativity can come from the risk of intense self-annihilation.
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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This is the behavior of someone with a subliminal desire for total self-annihilation.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Anthony Weiner and Why Powerful Men Self-Destruct Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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In Brandon's case, a conflicted search for pleasure and self-annihilation may be leading him toward the latter because, for reasons unspecified though implied, he can't open himself to the former.
'Shame': Tracking The Travails of Lost Souls Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Is there a connection between an unexamined life and the pull of self-annihilation?
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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Those who weather the storm sometimes emerge as people of talent and creativity; the birth of creativity can come from the risk of intense self-annihilation.
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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I became a voracious reader of the literature on the act of self-annihilation.
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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It is a stubborn thing resisting the call to self-annihilation, deadening pain, and compromising with what is simply wrong.
Lonni Collins Pratt: The Sacred Power Of Hope Lonni Collins Pratt 2011
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