SELF-ANNIHILATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The act of killing yourself

Example:

it is a crime to commit suicide

Synonyms:

self-annihilation; self-destruction; suicide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("self-annihilation" is a kind of...):

kill; killing; putting to death (the act of terminating a life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "self-annihilation"):

assisted suicide (suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible)

felo-de-se (an act of deliberate self destruction)

hara-kiri; harakiri; harikari; seppuku (ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society)

suttee (the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband)