SELF-ANNIHILATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-annihilation mean? 

• SELF-ANNIHILATION (noun)
  The noun SELF-ANNIHILATION has 1 sense:

1. the act of killing yourself

  Familiarity information: SELF-ANNIHILATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-ANNIHILATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of killing yourself

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

self-annihilation; self-destruction; suicide

Context example:

it is a crime to commit suicide

Hypernyms ("self-annihilation" is a kind of...):

kill; killing; putting to death (the act of terminating a life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "self-annihilation"):

assisted suicide (suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible)

felo-de-se (an act of deliberate self destruction)

hara-kiri; harakiri; harikari; seppuku (ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society)

suttee (the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband)