self-destruction

Noun
  1. The act of killing yourself (synset 100223352)
    "it is a crime to commit suicide"
    is a type of: kill, killing, putting to death - the act of terminating a life
    subtypes:
    • 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
    same as: self-annihilation, suicide
  2. The act of destroying yourself (synset 100223633)
    "his insistence was pure self-destruction"
    is a type of: destruction, devastation - the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists

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