Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun self-destruction

2 senses of self-destruction

Sense 1
suicide, self-destruction, self-annihilation -- (the act of killing yourself; "it is a crime to commit suicide")
       => killing, kill, putting to death -- (the act of terminating a life)

Sense 2
self-destruction -- (the act of destroying yourself; "his insistence was pure self-destruction")
       => destruction, devastation -- (the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists)