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selfslaughter

noun

Etymology

1595, self- + slaughter.

  1. derived from *slak-✻
  2. derived from *slahaną✻
  3. derived from *slahtrą✻
  4. derived from *slahtr✻
  5. inherited from slaughter
  6. prefixed as selfslaughter — “self + slaughter”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of self-slaughter ("suicide").

    • As the Greeks gape at women heaped up in selfslaughter, / They hear of Aeneas's flight with the loot.

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