self-inflicted
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Police said they found the driver deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot injuries."
- "An expert in the self-inflicted wound, his attacks frequently miss their target in favour of reminding you of his own failings."
- "When the salarians discovered them, the krogan were a brutal, primitive species struggling to survive a self-inflicted nuclear winter. The salarians culturally uplifted them, teaching them to use and build modern technology so they could serve as soldiers in the Rachni War."
- "One huge self-inflicted wound the industry is now suffering from is the lack of coupling compatibility. Up to the 1980s virtually everything had compatible drawgear on a given route, so there was every chance of pushing a failed train out of the way. Since privatisation, compatibility has been lost and in the last few years operators seem to have gone out of their way to avoid compatibility."
- "A man shot dead 12 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro before dying from self-inflicted injuries early on Thursday, authorities said, in one of the tiny Balkan nation’s worst mass killings."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English inflicted English self-inflicted From self- + inflicted.