Usually means: Harmful treatment or neglect of oneself.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word self-abuse:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-abuse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. self-abuse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-abuse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. self-abuse, self-abuse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. self-abuse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Self-abuse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. self-abuse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. self-abuse: Free Dictionary
  9. self-abuse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. self-abuse: Dictionary/thesaurus
  11. Self-abuse, self-abuse: Wordnik
  12. self-abuse: Wiktionary
  13. self-abuse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  14. self-abuse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  15. self-abuse: Infoplease Dictionary
  16. self-abuse: Dictionary.com
  17. self-abuse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  18. Self-abuse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  19. Self-abuse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  20. self-abuse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  21. self-abuse: Rhymezone

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  1. self-abuse: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (self-abuse)

noun:  (obsolete) Self-deception.
noun:  Physical or verbal maltreatment of oneself.
noun:  Injury inflicted deliberately upon oneself, especially resulting from a mental disorder.
noun:  (dated, euphemistic, now frequently ironic or humorous) Masturbation, regarded as sinful or harmful.
verb:  To harm oneself.
verb:  (dated, euphemistic, now frequently ironic or humorous) To masturbate.

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