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She is destroying herself by drinking too much.

Elle se détruit en buvant trop.

Exemples

I am enjoying myself. We helped ourselves first.
You look at yourself. You look at yourselves.
He appointed himself president. She made a joke about herself.
It poisoned itself (by eating the rat poison). She committed suicide, she killed herself.
old people are often alone : they speak to themselves. They look at themselves.

Self indique ce qui se rapporte au seul sujet en question, et intervient comme suffixe dans de très nombreux mots et locutions : self-evident, qui saute aux yeux, self-defense, légitime défense, self-filling, remplissage automatique, etc. Aussi selfish, égoïste.

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