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autodestructive en · ADJ

Etymology

From auto- + destructive.

Meanings

1. Self-destroying; self-destructive.
   • Collectively they conjure up a crazed version of autodestructive white America at its most solipsistic, hankering after its own lost origins. 1996 June 28, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Acid Western”, in Chicago Reader:
   • In contrast to what might be expected, MHC class I-deficient mice are not autodestructive. 2000 June 16, Per-Arne Oldenborg et al., “Role of CD47 as a Marker of Self on Red Blood Cells”, in Science, volume 288, number 5473, →DOI, pages 2051–2054:
   • […] until 1957 he was a painter. However, as he told Bomberg, he was searching for something 'extremely fast and intense' and in 1960 he began 'painting' with acid on nylon, thus becoming a pioneer of autodestructive art, for which he has remained the chief spokesman. 1993, Jonathan Law, European culture: a contemporary companion, page 247:

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