kill oneself

1. 1.

   strain oneself more than is healthy

   Synonymsoverexert oneself

   Broaderstrive

Questions about kill oneself

What does kill oneself mean?

kill oneself means "strain oneself more than is healthy".

What is another word for kill oneself?

Close synonyms include overexert oneself. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kill oneself a common word?

kill oneself is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.