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conjugicide

conjugicide noun: the act of killing one's spouse with the intention of then marrying someone else (sometimes taken to also include the act of killing another person's spouse with the intention of then marrying that person).

Noun

conjugicide (plural conjugicides)

  1. The act of killing one's spouse with the intention of then marrying someone else (sometimes taken to also include the act of killing another person's spouse with the intention of then marrying that person).
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Forms of conjugicide

pluralconjugicides

Origin of conjugicide

From conjug(al) + -icide.

Questions about conjugicide

What does conjugicide mean?
Conjugicide means the act of killing one's spouse with the intention of then marrying someone else (sometimes taken to also include the act of killing another person's spouse with the intention of then marrying that person).
What part of speech is conjugicide?
Conjugicide is a noun.
What is the plural of conjugicide?
The plural of conjugicide is conjugicides.

Words near conjugicide in the dictionary

  1. conjugative
  2. conjugatively
  3. conjugator
  4. conjugators
  5. conjugial
  6. conjugicide
  7. conjugicides
  8. conjumble
  9. conjumbled
  10. conjumbles
  11. conjumbling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: conjugicide (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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