death wish

noun

: the conscious or unconscious desire for the death of oneself or of another

Examples of death wish in a Sentence

Have you seen the way she drives? She must have a death wish.

Recent Examples on the Web

And these were just the animals and machines trying to do you in, not to mention the glare of the sun, the Feds, or some bad-seed trimmer with a crush or a death wish. — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026

Their argument was that the call of the void is not in fact a death wish. — Philip Maymin, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026

Should the guy who spends his spare time dodging bullets really be lecturing him on death wishes? — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026

The idea that anyone not afflicted by a death wish might initiate a high-speed accident with a thirty-eight-ton tractor-trailer seemed ludicrous. — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1856, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for death wish

• bluefish
• catfish
• codfish
• crawfish
• dogfish
• finfish
• flatfish
• goldfish
• groundfish
• kingfish
• offish
• redfish

Medical Definition

death wish

noun

: the conscious or unconscious desire for the death of another or of oneself

called also destrudo