parricide

Noun

Meaning

Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.

The act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

killing murder suicide homicide slaying insecticide genocide infanticide regicide fratricide matricide germicide manslayer aborticide feticide
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Antonyms

life treatment medicine cure remedy medicament
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Hypernyms

liquidator execution murder murderer slaying manslayer

Hyponyms

matricide patricide

Examples

Above the punitive city hangs this iron spider; and the criminal who is to be thus crucified by the new law is parricide. Michel Foucault

As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame. Elizabeth Wurtzel

Close letter words and terms

parriar parricidal parricidally parricidial parricidiall parricidious