What does matricide mean?
Matricide means The killing of one's mother..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The killing of one's mother..
Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother.
Here the interest was the more compelling because the case of Orestes was unique—not only because matricide was an almost unknown crime, but also because the gods themselves participate in an action in which the slain mother had herself slain the father of her son.
Nancy was a matricide; it happened four years ago.
Use matricide when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Matricide means The killing of one's mother..
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Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother.
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