SELF-DESTROY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-destroy mean? 

• SELF-DESTROY (verb)
  The verb SELF-DESTROY has 1 sense:

1. do away with oneself or itself

  Familiarity information: SELF-DESTROY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-DESTROY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Do away with oneself or itself

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

self-destroy; self-destruct

Context example:

The machine will self-destruct if you tamper with it

Hypernyms (to "self-destroy" is one way to...):

destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

self-destruction (the act of killing yourself)

self-destruction (the act of destroying yourself)