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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Pain or torture inflicted on one's self: as, the self-torture of the heathen.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun self-imposed distress

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