self-immolate

self- +‎ immolate

self-immolate (third-person singular simple present self-immolates, present participle self-immolating, simple past and past participle self-immolated)

1. (intransitive) To set oneself on fire, especially as a form of protest.
   • 2019 April 15, J Oliver Conroy, “A lawyer set himself on fire to protest climate change. Did anyone care?”, in The Guardian‎:

     A woman asked, hesitantly: “Is he the one who … self-immolated?”

• self-immolation