Selfslaughter

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of self-slaughter ("suicide"). alt-of, alternative

    "As the Greeks gape at women heaped up in selfslaughter, / They hear of Aeneas's flight with the loot."

Synonyms

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sillycidesuicidesuicism

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"As the Greeks gape at women heaped up in selfslaughter, / They hear of Aeneas's flight with the loot."

Etymology

1595, self- + slaughter.

Related phrases

self slaughtered

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