Uxoricide

//ʌkˈsɔː.ɹɪˌsaɪd//

Synonyms for "uxoricide" (16 found)

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32 translations across 17 languages.

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Catalan

2 entries
  • uxoricida noun (a man who kills his wife)
  • uxoricidi noun (the killing of one's wife)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • edzinmurdo noun (the killing of one's wife)

Estonian

2 entries
  • naisetapja noun (a man who kills his wife)
  • naisetapp noun (the killing of one's wife)

Finnish

1 entries
  • vaimonmurha noun (the killing of one's wife)

French

2 entries
  • uxoricide noun (a man who kills his wife)
  • uxoricide noun (the killing of one's wife)

German

2 entries
  • Gattinnenmord noun (the killing of one's wife)
  • Gattinnenmörder noun (a man who kills his wife)

Greek

2 entries
  • συζυγοκτονία noun (the killing of one's wife)
  • συζυγοκτόνος noun (a man who kills his wife)

Ido

1 entries
  • spozinocido noun (the killing of one's wife)

Irish

1 entries
  • marfóir mná céile noun (a man who kills his wife)

Italian

2 entries
  • uxoricida noun (a man who kills his wife)
  • uxoricidio noun (the killing of one's wife)

Polish

2 entries
  • żonobójca noun (a man who kills his wife)
  • żonobójstwo noun (the killing of one's wife)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • uxoricida noun (a man who kills his wife)
  • uxoricídio noun (the killing of one's wife)

Romagnol

2 entries
  • uxorizìda noun (a man who kills his wife)
  • uxorizìdi noun (the killing of one's wife)

Russian

2 entries
  • женоуби́йство noun (the killing of one's wife)
  • женоуби́йца noun (a man who kills his wife)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • ženoubica noun (a man who kills his wife)
  • ženoubistvo noun (the killing of one's wife)
  • женоубиство noun (the killing of one's wife)
  • женоубица noun (a man who kills his wife)

Spanish

2 entries
  • uxoricida noun (a man who kills his wife)
  • uxoricidio noun (the killing of one's wife)

Swedish

2 entries
  • hustrumord noun (the killing of one's wife)
  • hustrumördare noun (a man who kills his wife)

Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Having sold him the murder weapon makes you an accessory to uxoricide.

Source: tatoeba (1204672)

Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).

Source: wiktionary

In order for someone to green-light a movie of this story, they’d need to have at least background knowledge of the sexual shenanigans of Sartre and Beauvoir, and of Althusser’s uxoricide – though not necessarily a close acquaintance with their published work.

Source: wiktionary

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