Filicide

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The killing of one's son or one's daughter.
  • noun. One who kills his or her son or daughter.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A person who kills his or her own son, or more generally, child.
  • noun. The killing of one's own child.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the murder of your own son or daughter
  • noun. a parent who murders his own son or daughter
    • Word Usage
    "And there ` s something called filicide which discusses a parent killing a child."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    execution  murder  parent  slaying  
    Same Context
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    cognation  filiation  garden?'  pharmacologist  putti  
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