self-immolate

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ immolate.

Verb

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?”

Related terms

• self-immolation

Translations

to set oneself on fire

Armenian: ինքնահրկիզվել (hy) (inkʻnahrkizvel) Chinese: Mandarin: 自焚 (zh) (zìfén) Finnish: tehdä polttoitsemurha French: s'immoler (fr) Japanese: 焼身自殺する (しょうしんじさつする, shoushinjisatsusuru), 焼身する (しょうしんする, shoushinsuru) Latin: sē immolāre Macedonian: се самозапалува (se samozapaluva) Russian: сжига́ть самого́ себя́ impf (sžigátʹ samovó sebjá), сжечь самого́ себя́ pf (sžečʹ samovó sebjá) Spanish: autocremarse Swedish: sätta eld på sig själv