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familicide

noun

Etymology

From family + -cide.

  1. derived from familia
  2. inherited from famylye
  3. suffixed as familicide — “family + cide”

Definitions

  1. The murder of an entire family by a family member.

    • Because of the familicide that wiped out his entire family, he will be charged with six counts of murder.

  2. The perpetrator of a familicide.

    • The popular professional wrestler became the most notorious familicide of 2007.
    • There has also been some recent work focused on diagnostic correlates in aggressive individuals, including a familicide.
    • While hiding there under the assumed name Calinda, she nearly falls prey to duke Brianto, a stock character modeled on the salacious predatory Turk (a ‘familicide’ of “beastly appetite,” in league with a dishonest Greek ally) […]

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Derived

familicidal

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for familicide. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA