self-induce

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English

Verb

self-induce (third-person singular simple present self-induces, present participle self-inducing, simple past and past participle self-induced)

  1. (transitive) To cause in, for, or on oneself.
    • 2023, Naomi Braine, Abortion Beyond the Law: Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self-Managed Abortion, page 145:
      [] between 1.7 percent and 4.1 percent of all women in Texas eighteen to forty-nine years old had tried to self-induce an abortion []

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