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Definition of Self-destruction

1. Noun. The act of killing yourself. "It is a crime to commit suicide"

2. Noun. The act of destroying yourself. "His insistence was pure self-destruction"

Definition of Self-destruction

1. Noun. The voluntary destruction of something by itself. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-destruction

self-denial self-denials self-denying self-deport self-deportation self-deportations self-deprecating self-deprecation self-depreciation self-deprivation

self-deprivations self-destroy self-destruct self-destructed self-destructing self-destruction (current term) self-destructions self-destructive self-destructiveness self-destructs

self-determination self-determined self-differentiation self-directed self-direction self-discipline self-disciplined self-discovery self-disgust self-distance

Literary usage of Self-destruction

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1908)
"THE PROBABLE self-destruction OF THE TRUST. BY PHILIP RAPPAPORT. IN AN article under the head of: "The Sweep of Economic Events in the light of History," in ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"Suicide is intentional self-destruction by one who is sane. If one is insane, his self-destruction cannot legally be suicide, nor is self-destruction ..."

3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"A provision in a policy of life insurance that "self-destruction" is a risk not assumed by ... "Self destruction," as used in a life policy providing that ..."

4. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"An almost infallible means of saving yourself from the desire of self-destruction, is, always to have something to do.— Creech, the commentator on Lucretius ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"Others were of opinion that any insane self-destruction was not within the condition.* In Terry's Cote (the trial of which in the Circuit Court before Mr. ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Insurance in All Its Branches: Especially Fire by George Richards (1909)
"Suicide and self-destruction, Sane or Insane, Excepted.— To extend for their benefit the operation of the restriction, the insurers have generally added to ..."

7. A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and by Daniel Hack Tuke (1892)
"... Cato standing prominently out from others of less note. Cicero has spoken of the act as the result of his peculiar character.}; The self-destruction of ..."

8. The Continental System: An Economic Interpretation by Eli Filip Heckscher, Harald Westergaard (1922)
"... CHAPTER VI self-destruction OF THE SYSTEM NAPOLEON completely misinterpreted the significance of British difficulties; and how much the dislocation of ..."

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