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matricide

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Definitions

  1. the murder of your mother

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother.
  • Nancy was a matricide; it happened four years ago.

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