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domicide

domicide noun: the deliberate destruction of a home or homes.

Noun

domicide (countable and uncountable, plural domicides)

  1. The deliberate destruction of a home or homes.
    • Currently, no word exists for the action of destroying peoples’ homes and/or expelling them from their homeland. We suggest the neologism “domicide,” the deliberate destruction of home that causes suffering to its inhabitants.2001, J. Douglas Porteous, Sandra E. Smith, Domicide: The Global Destruction of Home, McGill-Queen’s University Press, page ix
    • The work of Porteous and Smith (2001, 64) is central here to understanding what is coined "domicide", the deliberate destruction of home, which in its "extreme" form involves "major, planned operations that occur rather sporadically in time but often affect large areas and change the lives of...2012, Katherine Brickell, “Geopolitics of Home”, in Geography Compass, 6(10), p. 577

Forms of domicide

pluraldomicides

Origin of domicide

From Latin domus (“house, home”) + -icide. Coined by J. Douglas Porteous and Sandra E. Smith.

Questions about domicide

What does domicide mean?
Domicide means the deliberate destruction of a home or homes.
What part of speech is domicide?
Domicide is a noun.
What is the plural of domicide?
The plural of domicide is domicides.

Words near domicide in the dictionary

  1. domical
  2. domically
  3. domichnial
  4. domichnion
  5. domicidal
  6. domicide
  7. domicides
  8. domicil
  9. domicilable
  10. domicile
  11. domiciled

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