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self-slaughter

[ self-slaw-ter ]

noun



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Other Words From

  • self-slaughtered adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of self-slaughter1

First recorded in 1595–1605
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Example Sentences

To her the plague was better than self-slaughter, as self-slaughter was better than pollution.

Perhaps he meditated breaking that instinctive canon which the Most High has so wisely fixed against "self-slaughter."

Even fever gives a man at least a week's grace, and sudden death generally implied self-slaughter.

Wealth, too, may become an incitement to self-slaughter from sheer disgust.

No imaginable crisis in his affairs could have convinced him to self-slaughter.

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