as in suicide
the act of deliberately killing oneself
the controversy over self-destruction accomplished with the assistance of a physician or other person
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Recent Examples of self-destruction
The Doomsday Clock is a metaphorical representation of how close humanity is to self-destruction.
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Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
The weight of all this is only so heavy, though, because of how thoroughly The Agency built the bond between Samia and Martian, and how plainly it’s presented love as an act of blissful self-destruction.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
This was one of those overdoses that had the absolute reverberation of a slow-motion, unconscious descent into self-destruction.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
There will be blood, unsurprisingly, as well as violence, violations, self-destruction, and tragedy of both the intimate and the overarching, sociological kind.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
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Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
The weight of all this is only so heavy, though, because of how thoroughly The Agency built the bond between Samia and Martian, and how plainly it’s presented love as an act of blissful self-destruction.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
This was one of those overdoses that had the absolute reverberation of a slow-motion, unconscious descent into self-destruction.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
There will be blood, unsurprisingly, as well as violence, violations, self-destruction, and tragedy of both the intimate and the overarching, sociological kind.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for self-destruction
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“Self-destruction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-destruction. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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