self-injure

verb

To commit self-injury.

OriginEnglish injure ← Middle English self- ← Old English self- →
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Meanings

verbself-injure (third-person singular simple present self-injures, present participle self-injuring, simple past and past participle self-injured)

present singular third person self-injures · participle present self-injuring · participle past self-injured · past self-injured

  1. intransitiveTo commit self-injury.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*swé?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*selbʰ-
  3. Proto-Germanic*selbaz
  4. Old Englishself
  5. Old Englishself-
  6. Middle Englishself-
  7. Englishself-
  8. Englishinjure
  9. Englishself-injure

From self- + injure.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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