Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The killing of one's brother or sister.
- noun One who has killed one's brother or sister.
- noun The accidental killing of an ally caused by a discharge of a military weapon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who murders or kills a brother.
- noun The act of murdering or killing a brother.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.
- noun One who murders or kills his own brother.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
killing of one'sbrother (orsister ). - noun A person who
commits thiscrime . - noun military, by extension The intentional or unintentional killing of a
comrade in arms .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who murders their brother or sister
- noun fire that injures or kills an ally
- noun the murder of your sibling
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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An investigation was immediately launched, and several documents show that the local chain of command was largely convinced it was fratricide from the beginning.
May 2005 2005
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This caused the Venetian government to seize their treasure and to commission the statues as a cautionary, perpetual reminder that fratricide is considered very, very rude in that part of the world.
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This caused the Venetian government to seize their treasure and to commission the statues as a cautionary, perpetual reminder that fratricide is considered very, very rude in that part of the world.
Veniceblog: 2004
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Frank J. Sulloway in his Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics and Creative Lives (New York: Random House, 1996) gives a paragraph to the Díaz brothers (273) and throughout his book refers to fratricide and sibling rivalry.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Frank J. Sulloway in his Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics and Creative Lives (New York: Random House, 1996) gives a paragraph to the Díaz brothers (273) and throughout his book refers to fratricide and sibling rivalry.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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The U.S. military refers to it as fratricide, which is the killing of a brother.
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The poem proceeds to move fear away from political theology and ultimately toward a secular account of legitimate retributive justice — in which fear is invoked as a highly specific accompaniment to the notion of deserved punishment for the "fratricide" that
Romantic Fear 2008
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In service as an Army Ranger, Tillman was shot by another American in what the military calls "fratricide," but what the rest of the nation knows as "friendly fire."
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Tillman was on his second tour of duty when he was killed in Afghanistan -- a victim of "fratricide," inadvertently killed by his own troops during an ill-fated expedition.
Rory O'Connor: The Tillman Story -- Just Give Us Some Truth 2010
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He also thought that the problem posed by "fratricide" would preclude a successful first strike.
SanketMali commented on the word fratricide
Fater or Fatris refers to Brother in Latin and ' Cide' refers to killing.
Fater+Cide = Fratricide = Killing one's own brother.
October 22, 2013