Definition of "self-inflicted" [self-inflicted]

• Inflicted or imposed on oneself: died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. (adjective)

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• "Yet the current Palestinian leadership still insists on calling the self-inflicted wounds caused by its rejection of a two-state solution the " nakba ," meaning the catastrophe."
• "The Democratic president explicitly blamed Republicans for the country's recent rating downgrade, saying it "could have been entirely avoided if there had been a willingness to compromise in Congress" which he later described as a "self-inflicted wound.""
• "The troubled star's sacking from the hit TV show "Two and a Half Men" Monday came after the 45-year-old hurled himself into what Warner Brothers called his "self-inflicted disintegration" over the past two weeks."