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self-create en · VERB

Etymology

From self- + create.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To create oneself or itself.
    • To be is to self-create, renovate, and endure.
  2. (transitive) To create (something) on one's own, without help from others.
    • Have you tried doing it yourself? It's not easy. I was hoping to illustrate this article with some self-created buzzwords for leftwingers to use. The first one I came up with was "molehill mountaineer", a pejorative term to describe the sort of perpetually furious rightwing weevil who spends their life calculatedly conflating issues such as the "Ground Zero mosque" into gigantic media crapgasms. 2010 August 30, Charlie Brooker, “Buzzwords for blowhards”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 May 2023:

Forms

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self-creates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
self-creating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
self-created Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
self-created Tense=Past lexicographic