self-harm

English

Self-inflicted cuts on the forearm

Etymology

From self- +‎ harm.

Noun

self-harm (uncountable)

(mental health) The deliberate non-suicidal injuring of one's own body.
Synonyms: self-injury, self-mutilation, SI

Hyponym: self-embedding

Related terms

self-harmer

Descendants

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

Translations

deliberate injuring of one's body

French: automutilation (fr) f, scarification (fr) f
German: Selbstverletzung f, Selbstverletzendes Verhalten n
Japanese: 自傷 (ja) (じしょう, 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
Swedish: självskada c

Verb

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

(intransitive) To harm oneself deliberately.

Anagrams

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