Redman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.
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An attempt to make the change will likely prove to be another self-inflicted wound for Republicans.
Farming's image looks like getting another damaging self-inflicted dent as a result of what the public perceive as wholesale tax dodging.
How could she possibly know that he was wading in blood from a self-inflicted wound?
So, with a self-inflicted slap on the wrist, I leave you.
Stress and anxiety are often self-inflicted.
The computer-equipped force suffered self-inflicted casualties more than three times higher than those in previous exercises without computers.
They can also help a floundering organization extricate itself from the depths of a self-inflicted malaise.
Yet this epidemic of self-inflicted slaughter seems to pass us by with little front page news in the national Press.
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· How could she possibly know that he was wading in blood from a self-inflicted wound?· An attempt to make the change will likely prove to be another self-inflicted wound for Republicans.· Seven weeks had elapsed, and her self-inflicted wounds were still as raw as the day that she'd left.· His body dripped blood from several self-inflicted wounds on his chest and arms.· The only people who make a choice today are the ones with self-inflicted wounds, and they get shot for it.· Max had been right: love is a form of madness, what the army calls a self-inflicted wound.
self-inflicted pain, problems, illnesses etc are those you have caused yourself: self-inflicted gunshot wounds Stress is often self-inflicted.