self-immolate
verbEtymology From self- + immolate.
1
To set oneself on fire, especially as a form of protest.
- A woman asked, hesitantly: “Is he the one who … self-immolated?”2019 April 15, J Oliver Conroy, “A lawyer set himself on fire to protest climate change. Did anyone care?”, in The Guardian:
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