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uxoricide

Syllables: ux·or·i·cide/ʌkˈsɔː.ɹɪˌsaɪd/

uxoricide noun: one who murders one's wife.

Noun (1)

uxoricide (plural uxoricides)

  1. One who murders one's wife.

Noun (2)

uxoricide (countable and uncountable, plural uxoricides)

  1. The murdering of one's own wife.
    • Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group...
    • In order for someone to green-light a movie of this story, they’d need to have at least background knowledge of the sexual shenanigans of Sartre and Beauvoir, and of Althusser’s uxoricide – though not necessarily a close acquaintance with their published work.2015, Will Self, ‘Man-Eating Philosophers’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12

uxoricide meaning in Tamil and Urdu

uxoricide in Tamil

மனைவிக்கொலை

uxoricide in Urdu

بیوی کا قتل, زن کشی

Antonyms of uxoricide

Forms of uxoricide

pluraluxoricides

Origin of uxoricide

Borrowed from French uxoricide or Latin uxor + English -icide.

From French uxoricide or Latin uxōricīdium.

Words formed from uxoricide

Questions about uxoricide

What does uxoricide mean?
Uxoricide means one who murders one's wife.
What is uxoricide in Tamil?
Uxoricide in Tamil is மனைவிக்கொலை. See Uxoricide meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is uxoricide?
Uxoricide is a noun.
How do you pronounce uxoricide?
Uxoricide is pronounced /ʌkˈsɔː.ɹɪˌsaɪd/.
What is the plural of uxoricide?
The plural of uxoricide is uxoricides.

Words near uxoricide in the dictionary

  1. UXO
  2. uxorial
  3. uxoriality
  4. uxorially
  5. uxoricidal
  6. uxoricide
  7. uxoricides
  8. uxorilocal
  9. uxorilocality
  10. uxorilocally
  11. uxorious

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uxoricide (page history and authors); uxoricide (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); uxoricide (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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