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self-destruction
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self-destruction [¦self di¦strək·shən]
(ordnance)
The event, due to fuse or tracer action without outside stimulus when provided for in the design, in which the fuse or tracer effects projectile or missile destruction, after flight to a range greater than that of the target.


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Why do we conclude Iraq will self-destruct if we leave?
The game's participants--including a mother and daughter at cross-purposes, a former sit-com actress whose career could use a boost, and a husband and wife who believe that God will cure them of their homosexuality--may have been carefully chosen from the applicant pool by the production staff because they are most likely to self-destruct on prime-time TV.
And watching her nearly self-destruct in spike heels during Bernadette's number ``Hey Einstein'' is a comic feast.
 
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