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self-harm

Speech parts

1. self-harm - Noun

2. self-harm - Verb

Meaning

self-harm (uncountable)

The deliberate non-suicidal injuring of one's own body.
Synonyms: self-injury, self-mutilation, SI
Hyponym: self-embedding

self-harm (third-person singular simple present self-harms, present participle self-harming, simple past and past participle self-harmed)

(intransitive) To harm oneself deliberately.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

self harm

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Examples

I know that isn't always easy and that there is self-harm in the world. Sometimes it's hard for people to rise above things. Andrew Biersack

I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm. Laurie Halse Anderson

According to the brain-centered model of exercise performance, a runner achieves his race goal when his brain calculates that achieving the race goal is possible without catastrophic self-harm. Matt Fitzgerald

At the risk of contradicting a whole slew of experts, it might not be the screen time that is causing a spike in teenage suicides and self-harm, but what is on the screen. Source: Internet

A month before the tragedy, Amanda posted a heartbreaking video on YouTube My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self-harm, in which she explains in her own words how bullying turned her life upside down. Source: Internet

But becoming even more exclusive would be an act of grievous self-harm. Source: Internet

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