Word Meanings - SELF-DESTRUCTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The destruction of one's self; self-murder; suicide. Milton.

Related words: (words related to SELF-DESTRUCTION)

• DESTRUCTIONIST
  One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; -- called also annihilationist. Shipley. (more info) 1. One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• DESTRUCTION
  1. The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation. The Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction. Esth. ix. 5. 'Tis safer to be that
• MURDERMENT
  Murder. Farfax.
• MURDERESS
  A woman who commits murder.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• MURDEROUS
  Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing, murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder; bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine; murderous intent; a murderous assault. "Murderous coward." Shak.
• SUICIDE
  1. The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically , the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.
• MURDER
  The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. "Mordre will out." Chaucer. The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder,
• MURDERER
  1. One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice. 2. A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece.
• SELF-MURDER
  Suicide.
• SELF-DESTRUCTION
  The destruction of one's self; self-murder; suicide. Milton.
• RACE SUICIDE
  The voluntary failure of the members of a race or people to have a number of children sufficient to keep the birth rate equal to the death rate.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• SELF-MURDERER
  A suicide.