self-inflicted
self-inflicted
Definition
self·-inflicted (-in flik′tid)
adjective
inflicted on oneself by oneself, as an injury
self-inflicted
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- wound: Her husband was beside her with only a minor self-inflicted wound.
- injury: Done properly, Salsa should cause very few self-inflicted injuries.
- death: Self-inflicted death done in the privacy of a home usually doesn't make the paper.
- pain: Read more... Mountain Mayhem 2003 21 Jun 2003 More self-inflicted pain from two Nottingham-based teams, this time in Birmingham.
- damage: The party is behind in the opinion polls and suffering from self-inflicted damage.
- problem: The East Anglia Ambulance Trust had even worse self-inflicted problems.
Modifying Another Word
- apparently: There had been three apparently self-inflicted deaths in the previous six months, all within the first four days of custody.
- largely: The real trouble is that much of the damage seems to be largely self-inflicted.
- not: All my scars are from incoming mail, not self-inflicted.
- often: The axis powers demonstrated high growth rates through severe, and often self-inflicted, restrictions on external trade through the 1930's.
- partly: There are more than enough fruitful issues for nationalists to run on outside the partly self-inflicted ghetto of the past years.
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