One-Word Substitutions Related to Killing (–cide)

 One-Word Substitutions Related to Killing (–cide)

1. Homicide: The killing of a human being by another person.

2. Suicide: The act of killing oneself.

3. Genocide: The deliberate and systematic killing of a particular racial, ethnic, national, or religious group.

4. Regicide: The killing of a king or queen.

5. Parricide: The killing of one's father, mother, or both parents.

6. Patricide: The killing of one's father.

7. Matricide: The killing of one's mother.

8. Fratricide: The killing of one's brother.

9. Sororicide: The killing of one's sister.

10. Mariticide: The killing of one's husband.

11. Uxoricide: The killing of one's wife.

12. Infanticide: The killing of an infant or a very young child.

13. Foeticide: (Feticide) The killing of an unborn child (foetus).

14. Deicide: The killing of a god or a divine being (used mainly in mythology or theology).

15. Tyrannicide: The killing of a tyrant or oppressive ruler.