What does felinicide mean?
Felinicide means (nonce word) The killing of a cat..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(nonce word) The killing of a cat..
Care killed the cat, for instance ; but Care was not guilty of felinicide.
If he hated cats, there had been a dozen contrivances in the attic to suit the purpose of felinicide.
After the pastor died, Uncle moved in with his widow sister; and as soon as little Orlando initiated his felinicides, filling the house with pots of cat organs and cremating the remains in the backyard, his uncle started to call him Buchenwald (pronounced Butchanval), which finally slimmed down to Butcha.
Unable to safeguard the last stragglers of various endangered species, the worldwide ecological community is, in some areas, attempting full-on felinicide. People bomb cats' lairs with targeted viruses and deadly poisons.
Use felinicide when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Felinicide means (nonce word) The killing of a cat..
Common synonyms include ailurocide, caticide, catslaughter, felicide.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Care killed the cat, for instance ; but Care was not guilty of felinicide.
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