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viricides

viricides is the plural 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

Questions about viricides

What is viricides the plural of?
Viricides is the plural of viricide.

Words near viricides in the dictionary

  1. virializes
  2. virializing
  3. virials
  4. viricidal
  5. viricide
  6. viricides
  7. virid
  8. viridenomycin
  9. viridescence
  10. viridescences
  11. viridescent

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