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viruscide

viruscide 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 viruscide

pluralviruscides

Origin of viruscide

From virus + -cide.

Questions about viruscide

What is viruscide the alternative form of?
Viruscide is the alternative form of viricide.

Words near viruscide in the dictionary

  1. Virupaksha
  2. viruria
  3. virus
  4. virus-proof
  5. viruscidal
  6. viruscide
  7. viruscides
  8. virused
  9. virusemia
  10. virusemic
  11. viruses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: viruscide (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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