Usage of "self-destruction"

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The act of killing yourself.

Usage of self-destruction in English

The thought of self-destruction recurred to him; but again his flesh recoiled. 
 The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 

His eyes swept the cell in search of some mode of self-destruction. 
 The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico 

But she kept going for the wrong types out of sheer self-destruction. 
 The preacher 

This despite there is no real defence against those set on self-destruction. 
 The Guardian 

They realized that self-destruction was sinful, and prevented it, time after time. 
 The Illustrated Man 

As a musician, Everett battles corporate rock to the point of self-destruction. 
 The Guardian 

He was influenced, they suggest, by their Drinking Sculptures which celebrate self-destruction. 
 The Guardian 

The way I was behaving was a definite way to total self-destruction. 
 The South African 

If ever there was a justifiable case of self-destruction, it was this. 
 Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century / Great Deeds of Men an... 

Or, as I prefer to call it, the season of shrinky self-destruction. 
 Wired 

An act of self-destruction, too, it well might turn out to be. 
 The Rangeland Avenger 

He was regressing under emotional exhaustion and on the verge of self-destruction. 
 The Demolished Man 

He vapours about self-destruction, he hints at dark troubles with his wife. 
 Regeneration / Being an Account of the Social Work of The Salvat... 

A recurring pattern of self-destruction, or perhaps some nemesis expunges intelligent life. 
 Futures 1 

She wasn't after fame and the victory of self-destruction like Trancas was. 
 Flesh and blood 

Do they not help to shape for him the dagger of self-destruction? 
 Fifteen Years in Hell: An Autobiography 

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