self-destruct
self-destruct
Definition
☆ self·-destruct (-di strukt′)
intransitive verb
- to destroy itself automatically a missile designed to self-destruct
- to greatly harm oneself or itself, specif. as the result of inherent or fundamental flaws
self-destruct
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- do: Do the songs self-destruct after a month or something?
- watch: So, all in all it was watching someone self-destruct.
Noun used with modifier
- will: No research to date has overturned the basic chemical fact of life that the paper is acidic and will self-destruct over time.
- cell: Overproduction also impaired a process called apoptosis, whereby damaged or unwanted cells self-destruct 14.
Modifies a noun
- button: With a goalless draw looking nailed on, United again hit the self-destruct button two minutes into injury time.
- mechanism: The Doctor was forced to set the self-destruct mechanism in the shelter, wiping the Sea Devil colony out to avert a war.
- mode: However, when Machan finally fell for 53 from 34 balls, Sussex went into self-destruct mode.
- message: StealthText is also a widely accessible application for sending self-destruct messages via SMS and WAP.
- system: This gets Rimmer thinking... Click for video clip Lister accidentally sets off the self-destruct system by ordering a milkshake and a crispy bar.
- sequence: Lazy Gui: Yuki is aboard a spaceship in which a computer infection causes the self-destruct sequence to start.
Preposition: in
- second: This review is confidential and will self-destruct in five seconds.
Browse dictionary entries near self-destruct
