Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The intentional, usually remote-controlled destruction of a space vehicle, rocket, or missile after launching, as for defective performance or reasons of safety.
- intransitive verb To destroy intentionally (a rocket or missile) after launch.
- intransitive verb To self-destruct.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To destroy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To destroy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To intentionally cause the
destruction of. - verb intransitive To
self-destruct .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb destroy (one's own missile or rocket)
- verb do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The GOP's ability to self destruct is breath taking and a pleasurre to watch.
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Why an out-of-power party would choose to unilaterally self-destruct is beyond me.
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The key to survivable abort from an SRM destruct is to get the Orion outside of the 'hot zone' with margin to spare.
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What I can’t wait to see, as the US middle class continues to self destruct, is all these poor “lazy” white people who’ll end up on the dole (or need of, but it’ll be gone) and face the same lack of sympathy.
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Hearing Chip admit he’s fuelling Colin’s ego for an inevitable self-destruct is great and makes me pull even more for that team.
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Yeah, no one really gets the loses until they are taken away - if you had them taken from you all in one day, you were stripped of them, employment, activities, everything, you would likely self destruct which is why it seems to be a slow and self eating process.
My Birthday (ongoing!)! Plus four 'must have' Manga reviews Elizabeth McClung 2009
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I used to joke that Fortune 500 companies can spend well over $250 million dollars on building a world-class brand, only to hand their social media presence over to "an intern for the summer," and watch it destruct in a matter of weeks.
Beverly Macy: Is Your Company Smart Enough for Social Media? Beverly Macy 2011
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It should be standard practice to build some form of self destruct sequence into the buildings and equipment in suspect countries.
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