| 单词 | parricide |
| 释义 | parricide (once / 9127 pages) n If a character in a novel kills one of her own parents, it's called parricide. Your dad will be impressed by your vocabulary skills if you say mid-argument, "I'm so mad at you I could commit parricide!" You can use the word parricide for the crime of murdering a mother or father, but it also means "one who kills their own parent." Historically, people who kill parental figures (like kings, for example) have also been charged with parricide. Parricide features as an important plot point in many books, ranging from "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" to "The Brothers Karamazov." Parricide combines Latin roots parus, "relative" and cida, "killer." WORD FAMILYparricide: parricides USAGE EXAMPLESRelated: The Le Pen family: family feud ends in political parricide | Observer profile Marine, who succeeded her father as leader in 2011, dismissed the move. The Guardian(Sep 05, 2015) It took an act of political parricide for her to murder sleeplessness. BBC(May 21, 2015) But the question for his daughter now is whether the electoral benefits of political parricide will outweigh the impact of a public feud. BBC(Apr 13, 2015) 1n the murder of your own father or mother Hypo|Hyper matricide the murder of your mother patricidethe murder of your father execution, murder, slaying unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being 2n someone who kills his or her parent Hypo|Hyper matricide a person who murders their mother patricidea person who murders their father liquidator, manslayer, murderer a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) |
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