self-harm

• selfharm, self harm

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self-harm (uncountable, abbreviation SH)

1. (mental health) The deliberate nonsuicidal injuring of one's own body.

   Synonyms: self-injury, self-mutilation; see also Thesaurus:self-harm

   • 2025 November 26, Robert Booth, “ChatGPT firm blames boy’s suicide on ‘misuse’ of its technology”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     It [OpenAI] said that its terms of use prohibited asking ChatGPT for advice about self-harm and highlighted a limitation of liability provision that states “you will not rely on output as a sole source of truth or factual information”.

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

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

1. (intransitive) To harm oneself deliberately.

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