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self-death en · NOUN

Etymology

From self- + death.

Meanings

1. (countable, euphemistic, uncountable) Suicide.
   • 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. (countable, uncountable) Apoptosis.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
self-deaths	Number=Plur		lexicographic
selfdeath		alternative	lexicographic

self-death en · VERB

Etymology

From self- + death.

Meanings

1. (euphemistic, rare) To commit suicide.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
selfdeath		alternative	lexicographic
self-deaths	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
self-deathed	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
self-deathed	Tense=Past		lexicographic
self-deathing	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic