self-death

noun

Suicide.

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Meanings

nounself-death (countable and uncountable, plural self-deaths)

plural self-deaths · alternative selfdeath

  1. countableeuphemisticuncountableSuicide.
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    Psychiatry may have a name for this form of cessation, but it isn't hard to see something of that notion in the self-deaths of creative artists who have either sought to push the very edges of corporeal existence or who have died because they couldn't find a way of truly validating their talents and their livingness.

    2020, Said Shahtahmasebi, Hatim A. Omar, The Broader View of Suicide, page 101
  2. countableuncountablebiologyApoptosis.
verbself-death (third-person singular simple present self-deaths, present participle self-deathing, simple past and past participle self-deathed)

present singular third person self-deaths · participle present self-deathing · participle past self-deathed · past self-deathed · alternative selfdeath

  1. euphemisticrareTo commit suicide.

Origin

From self- + death.

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APA

self-death. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-death

MLA

“self-death.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-death. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “self-death,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-death.

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