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parricide

[ par-uh-sahyd ]

noun

  1. the act of killing one's father, mother, or other close relative.
  2. a person who commits such an act.


parricide

/ 藞辫忙谤瑟藢蝉补瑟诲 /

noun

  1. the act of killing either of one's parents
  2. a person who kills his parent
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藢辫补谤谤颈藞肠颈诲补濒, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 辫补谤顎卹颈路肠颈诲顎僡濒 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of parricide1

1545鈥55; < Latin 辫补谤谤颈肠墨诲耻尘 act of kin-murder, 辫补谤谤颈肠墨诲补 kin-killer, equivalent to 辫腻谤颈- (akin to Greek 辫腻贸蝉, Attic 辫脓贸蝉 kinsman) + -c墨dum, -cida -cide
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of parricide1

C16: from Latin 辫补谤谤颈肠墨诲颈耻尘 murder of a parent or relative, and from 辫补谤谤颈肠墨诲补 one who murders a relative, from parri- (element related to Greek 辫脓辞蝉 kinsman) + -c墨dium, -c墨da -cide
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Example Sentences

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Indeed, Homo sapiens would be gone precisely because we avoided final extinction, as our successor is what murdered us 鈥 a technological case of parricide.

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Comedy is especially susceptible to generational change and bias; although young comics often cite older ones as inspirations, and a few giants remain funny across the decades, the art survives by parricide.

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There Oliverotto too was captured, a year after he committed his parricide, and together with Vittellozzo, who had been his teacher in his virtues and wickedness, he was strangled.

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Why would one woman commit mass parricide by poisoning 300 relatives, family friends, and herself at what should've been a joyous celebration?

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"It was like a Greek tragedy unfolding, and it ended like a Greek tragedy - in a symbolic parricide," says journalist Olivier Beaumont.

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