self-kill

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self-kill

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From self- + kill. compare Old English selfcwalu (“suicide, self-slaughter”).

verb self-kills · self-killing · self-killed · selfkill · self kill

ambitransitive To kill oneself; commit suicide. As his self-killing would not have been murder, his acts done in order to self-kill are not an attempt to murder.

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@misc{self_kill_2026,
  title = {self-kill},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/self-kill},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}