0 If an injury or a problem is self-inflicted, you have caused it yourself: --
1 (of something bad) done to yourself: --
a self-inflicted wound
The worst aspect of the whole saga is that it has been almost entirely self-inflicted.
Both those strikes were nails in the coffin of what appears to be an industry dying from self-inflicted wounds.
One of his greatest tricks of bamboozlement is the art he has devised of self-inflicted starvation just up to the point of dying.
In the year 2001 there were a total of six self-inflicted deaths by women.
The resources of society are being wasted because of the self-inflicted, society-dependent resistance against individual intentions to help, and because helpful social action is not being properly realized.
Its only casualty was self-inflicted.
Self-injury is defined as any injury which has been deliberately self-inflicted.
He writes mostly with amused detachment, sustaining a gently ironic tone until brought up short by the harsh reality of self-inflicted death.
