Urbicidal
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɜːbɪˈsaɪdəl/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Urbicidal is an adjective meaning Inimical to the vitality of a city.
Meaning
Inimical to the vitality of a city.
More Meanings
- Pertaining to or having the nature of urbicide, that being the deliberate “killing” of a city by the razing of distinctive physical manifestations of its urban identity, stifling of the social activity therein, and its general destruction as an edifice of civilisation.
Example Sentences
The method of this urbicidal ignorance is described step by step.
This man knows the void; he shows how urban emptiness can be an active, malevolent, urbicidal force.
The urbicidal effect of the staggering local property tax rates is aggravated by the large amount of property that, for one reason or another, is tax exempt…
^({1}) In contrast to Martin Shaw, he stresses that urbicidal acts were a distinct feature of that war. ^({2}) In contrast to Shaw, therefore, Coward argues that urbicidal warfare deserves stronger consideration in legal definitions of war crimes.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include arboricidal, killer, bunker-busting, linguicidal, destructive, truculent.
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