self-harm

See also: selfharm and self harm

English

Healed scars from prior self-harm.

Alternative forms

• selfharm, self harm

Etymology

From self- +‎ harm.

Pronunciation

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Noun

self-harm (uncountable)

1. (mental health) The deliberate non-suicidal injuring of one's own body.

   Synonyms: self-injury, self-mutilation, (initialism) SH; see also Thesaurus:self-harm

Related terms

• self-harmer

 

Descendants

• → Russian: селфха́рм (selfxárm)
• → Ukrainian: селфха́рм (selfxárm)

Translations

deliberate injuring of oneself

• French: automutilation (fr) f, scarification (fr) f
• German: Selbstverletzung f, Selbstverletzendes Verhalten n
• Japanese: 自傷 (ja) (jishō)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: selvskading m or f

• Polish: samookaleczanie n, samookaleczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: automutilação f
• Romanian: automutilare (ro) f
• Russian: самоповрежде́ние (ru) n (samopovreždénije), селфха́рм (ru) m (selfxárm)
• Spanish: autolesión f, autoagresión f, automutilación f
• Swedish: självskada c

Verb

self-harm (third-person singular simple present self-harms, present participle self-harming, simple past and past participle self-harmed)

1. (intransitive) To harm oneself deliberately.

Translations

to injure oneself deliberately

• French: automutiler (fr)
• Portuguese: automutilar
• Romanian: automutila (ro)
• Spanish: autolesionarse (es), automutilarse

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