"familicide" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: familicides [plural]
Etymology: family + -cide Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|family|cide|nocat=1}} family + -cide Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} familicide (countable and uncountable, plural familicides)
  1. The murder of an entire family by a family member. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Family, Murder, People
    Sense id: en-familicide-en-noun-OZ333jlG Disambiguation of Family: 99 1 Disambiguation of Murder: 71 29 Disambiguation of People: 71 29 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -cide (killer), English terms suffixed with -cide (killing) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 72 28 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 54 46 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -cide (killer): 65 35 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -cide (killing): 65 35
  2. The perpetrator of a familicide. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-familicide-en-noun-L39Hjmti Disambiguation of People: 71 29 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 54 46
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: familicidal Related terms: altruistic filicide, family annihilator, fratricide, homicide, infanticide, parricide, sororicide, suicide, uxoricide

Inflected forms

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