Thesaurus results for FRATRICIDE

fratricide

noun

Definition of fratricide

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the crime of purposefully ending the life of your own brother or sister

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Recent Examples of fratricide Here, Hamlet is a melancholy suburban prince named Juicy, in a Black family rocked by betrayal and fratricide and ghosts who pop out of backyard grills. — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023 The problem with the plan was fratricide, among other wanton cellular murders. — Jason Mast, STAT, 31 Aug. 2023 The Type-1a supernovae don’t come from solitary stars sitting around waiting to die, but from a case of pure stellar fratricide. — Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2023 Rumors of Njinga committing fratricide or engaging in cannibalism are treated with similar caution. — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for fratricide

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Noun

The network’s darker efforts have tackled some of the most gruesome crimes of recent decades, from college cults to patricide.

— Sezin Devi Koehler, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2026
This may be the highest profile local example of fiduciary law since the Menendez brothers’ trials three decades ago, when their family estate spent nearly $2 million to unsuccessfully defend them in the patricide of their parents.

— Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of patricide

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But instead of employing a ball gown, glass slippers, and a grand carriage made from a pumpkin, the renegade maid comes to her damsel in distress armed with a different kind of escape plan—one involving an axe and a double parricide.

— Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026
The Avici hell is the lowest and most terrible level of the eight hot hells of Buddhism, where those who’ve committed serious crimes (like parricide) must face constant suffering.

— Regina Kim, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026

Definition of parricide

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OpenAI already faces lawsuits alleging consumer harms, including lawsuits linking its chatbot to matricide, child suicide, school shootings, and other violence.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
In the case of Tom Brandis, played by the singular Mark Ruffalo, a tragedy (matricide) has devastated his family unit.

— Justin Kroll, Deadline, 2 June 2026

Definition of matricide

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They were rewarded for their regicide when Thatcher’s successor, John Major, unexpectedly won the following election in 1992.

— Ian King, CNBC, 24 June 2026
Unlike the Conservative Party, however, Labour does not have a history of regicide; the party has never mounted an official challenge against a sitting prime minister.

— Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 11 May 2026

Definition of regicide

Noun

Burks personally prosecuted five capital murder death penalty cases during her time at the district attorney’s office.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2026
The murder of two Israeli soldiers in the West Bank is the jumping-off point for a large-scale invasion of the Palestinian territory, a move that would further test the nation’s fraying relationship with the United States.

— Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 24 Oct. 2026

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Yet many studies have found that most women who commit filicide have, like Nakira, never been in trouble with the law before.

— Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026
Clancy’s case could be classified as filicide — a parent killing their own children — or a triple homicide.

— Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of filicide

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During a retrial in 2019, one of the victims and a co-defendant testified that their previous testimony implicating Bennett was coerced by a then-homicide detective.

— CBS Philadelphia, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
Utah authorities have identified notorious serial killer Ted Bundy as the killer of 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith, closing a homicide investigation 52 years to the day after her body was discovered.

— Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026

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