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单词 self-destroyed
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self-destroyedadj.

Brit. /ˌsɛlfdᵻˈstrɔɪd/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfdəˈstrɔɪd/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: self- prefix, destroyed adj. at destroy v. Derivatives.
Etymology: < self- prefix + destroyed adj. at destroy v. Derivatives. Compare earlier self-destroying adj.
Having brought about one's own destruction or downfall.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > self-destructive or destroyed
self-destroying1613
self-destroyed1637
self-destructive1641
suicidal1768
auto-destructive1895
self-destruct1955
self-destructing1962
1637 J. Sym Lifes Preservative against Self-killing xii. 171 Exercising all hostilitie and mischiefe upon himself, under pretence and colour of love and friendship to himselfe, he is self-betrayed, and self-destroyed.
1766 Ld. Mansfield in Hansard's Parl. Hist. XVI. 312 What the self-deluded and self-destroyed king said deceitfully.
1806 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno II. xxvi. 84 In what clime death o'ertook him self-destroyed.
1848 J. F. Cooper Oak Openings I. iv. 62 It was not so much Anglo-Saxon as Americo-Saxon, that was to be seen in the physical outlines and hues of this nearly self-destroyed being.
1908 S. M. Barrett Pract. Pedagogy (1909) xiv. 125 And ere the feet of those who bear away the bodies of these self-destroyed beings have returned, there are others, dead by their own hands.
1989 Glotta 67 85 The self-destroyed military race of the Spartoi.
2012 T. Wolfe Back to Blood xx. 672 My shiftless, trifling, used-to-be-eminent, self-destroyed husband.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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