self-destruction

English

Etymology

self- +‎ destruction

Noun

self-destruction (usually uncountable, plural self-destructions)

1. The act of something destroying itself.

   Hyponym: suicide

Hypernyms

• destruction

Derived terms

• self-destruct (back-formation)
• self-destructive

 

Translations

act of something destroying itself

• Catalan: autodestrucció f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自我毀滅／自我毁灭 (zìwǒ huǐmiè)

• Finnish: itsetuho
• French: autodestruction (fr) f
• German: Selbstzerstörung f
• Japanese: 自滅 (ja) (じめつ, jimetsu)
• Polish: autodestrukcja f, samozagłada f, samozniszczenie n
• Romanian: autodistrugere (ro) f
• Russian: саморазруше́ние (ru) n (samorazrušénije), самоуничтоже́ние (ru) n (samouničtožénije)
• Spanish: autodestrucción (es) f
• Swedish: självförstörelse c

See also

• self-destruction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia