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viracide

viracide is the alternative form of viricide.

Meaning of viricide

Noun (1)

viricide (plural viricides)

  1. Any substance that destroys or inactivates viruses.

Noun (2)

viricide (uncountable)

  1. The act of killing one's husband.
    • The impious Danaides, Grecian ſtories tell, / For barbarous viricide, condemn’d to hell, / Pour ſtreams in leaky tubs for evermore, / Whoſe pervious bottoms ſpout at every pore: […]1766, [Melchior de Polignac], translated by George Canning, A Translation of Anti-Lucretius, London: […] [F]or the Author; And sold by J. Dodsley, J. Almon, […], →OCLC, page 71

Forms of viracide

pluralviracides

Questions about viracide

What is viracide the alternative form of?
Viracide is the alternative form of viricide.

Words near viracide in the dictionary

  1. vira
  2. Viraat
  3. Virabahu
  4. virabhadrasana
  5. Virac
  6. viracide
  7. viracides
  8. Viracocha
  9. viraemia
  10. viraemias
  11. viraemic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: viracide (page history and authors); viricide (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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