Synonyms for self-destruction
self-de·struc·tion

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1. suicide, self-destruction, self-annihilationnoun

   the act of killing yourself

   "it is a crime to commit suicide"

   Synonyms:
   self-annihilation, felo-de-se, suicide

2. self-destructionnoun

   the act of destroying yourself

   "his insistence was pure self-destruction"

   Synonyms:
   suicide, self-annihilation

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1. • Destruction

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1. List of paraphrases for "self-destruction":

   self-destruct, self-destructing, self-destructive, sd, self-harm

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How to use self-destruction in a sentence?

1. Clifford V. Villalon:

   The human race is bound to survival, not for self-destruction.

2. Arthur Koestler:

   If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction.

3. Ron Galella/Ron Galella:

   He didn’t want to be around me, i didn’t want to be around me. But with the opiates and alcohol, I was doing anything to make me feel happy for a moment. Then I’d feel worse than I did before. I was in a cycle of self-destruction.

4. Dorothea Brande:

   There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bare only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

5. Justin Masuka:

   Any system that is not self-sustaining tends to oppose natural flow; and failure to auto-correct leads to self-destruction to give rise to a new system(s) to restore the balance.