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Matricide

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The killing of one's mother. countable, uncountable

    "Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother."

  2. 2
    the murder of your mother wordnet
  3. 3
    A person who kills his or her mother. countable, uncountable

    "Nancy was a matricide; it happened four years ago."

  4. 4
    a person who murders their mother wordnet

Etymology

From French matricide, from Latin mātricīda (“person who kills his own mother”) and mātricīdium (“the murder of one's mother”). By surface analysis, matri- + -cide.

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