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单词 uxoricide
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Definition of uxoricide in English:

uxoricide

noun ʌkˈsɔːrɪsʌɪd
mass noun
  • 1The killing of one's wife.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Not only did he never commit uxoricide, he never hit his wife.
    • The risk of uxoricide increased with greater age difference between partners.
    • Although seemingly rare, the rate of incidence of uxoricide in the United States is similar to that of childhood leukemia.
    Synonyms
    killing, homicide, assassination, liquidation, extermination, execution, slaughter, butchery, massacre
    1. 1.1count noun A man who kills his wife.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was an uxoricide who had crept up behind his wife one morning and slit her throat.
      • The Chief of Scotland Yard remains with doubt whether Arthur is an uxoricide or not.

Derivatives

  • uxoricidal

  • adjectiveʌksɔːrɪˈsʌɪd(ə)l
    • How and why the play cultivates such mixed responses toward a tyrannical, regicidal, fratricidal, uxoricidal, incestuous bogey-man will occupy our attention.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was a rock star in a glittering, perilous age, an intellectually curious, athletic charmer who became a uxoricidal, paranoid turkey-leg chomper, pursuing a male heir through six wives.
      • Add to this already zany array of characters, a psychiatrist with his own uxoricidal fantasies, and you have a Broadway comedy.
      • His eerie, unsettled melodies are a velvet stage for his tortured paedophiles and uxoricidal romantics, never Jack The Ripper, always Humbert Humbert, doomed anti-heroes formed from our unthinkable thoughts.
      • The ghost of a murdered wife seeks vengeance against her uxoricidal surgeon husband and his new bride.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Latin uxor 'wife' + -cide.

 
 

Definition of uxoricide in US English:

uxoricide

noun
  • 1The killing of one's wife.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The risk of uxoricide increased with greater age difference between partners.
    • Although seemingly rare, the rate of incidence of uxoricide in the United States is similar to that of childhood leukemia.
    • Not only did he never commit uxoricide, he never hit his wife.
    Synonyms
    killing, homicide, assassination, liquidation, extermination, execution, slaughter, butchery, massacre
    1. 1.1 A man who kills his wife.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was an uxoricide who had crept up behind his wife one morning and slit her throat.
      • The Chief of Scotland Yard remains with doubt whether Arthur is an uxoricide or not.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Latin uxor ‘wife’ + -cide.

 
 
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