selfslaughter

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A form of self-slaughter — The slaughter or slaying of oneself, suicide, especially when portrayed as a sin or crime.

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Meanings

nounselfslaughter (plural selfslaughters)

plural selfslaughters

  1. alternativeAlternative form of self-slaughter ("suicide").

    As the Greeks gape at women heaped up in selfslaughter, / They hear of Aeneas's flight with the loot.

    1989, Bill Greenwell, “Hector Berlioz: The Trojans”, in E. O. Parrott, editor, How to Be Tremendously Tuned In to Opera, London: Viking, →ISBN, page 13

Origin

1595, self- + slaughter.

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APA

selfslaughter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/selfslaughter

MLA

“selfslaughter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/selfslaughter. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “selfslaughter,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/selfslaughter.

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