self-kill

To kill oneself; commit suicide.

Verb

  1. To kill oneself; commit suicide.
    • As his self-killing would not have been murder, his acts done in order to self-kill are not an attempt to murder. - 1904, Dickinson School of Law, Penn State law review:
    • It might be suggested that if it is possible to think of the acts of people such as John and the young clerk, who kill themselves to wreak revenge on others, as falling short of suicide though they intentionally self...

Origin

From self- + kill. compare Old English selfcwalu (“suicide, self-slaughter”).

Forms

self-kills self-killing self-killed selfkill self kill

Derived

self-killer self-killing