Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who kills a parent; a parricide.
- noun The killing of one's parent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of one who kills one's own parent.
- noun rare One who kills one's own parent; a parricide.
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Examples
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I mean, this is very unusual, parricide, slang parenticide.
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You know, Bethany, the reality is that parricide, which is slang for parenticide, is very rare, much less when a girl, a girl, a teenager commits parricide.
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You know, paracide, a slaying version of parenticide, is only about 2 percent of all homicides and about 70 to 80 percent of that is by males.
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To Catherine Burton, psychologist, Catherine, the phenomenon of parenticide is extremely rare, even more rare in a young woman.
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Doctor, paracide, which is also known in the slang mode, parenticide, very rare.
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One of most unusual cases in the justice system, parricide, parenticide, at the hands of a 16-year-old girl, no history of mental problems, no history of juvenile justice problems.
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GRACE: One of the reasons I have taken this case so seriously is the thought of parenticide, the thought of killing your parents, your mother and your father.
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Zionism, like the fictional Jewish parenticide, shamelessly attempts to turn reality on its head.
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Zionism, like the fictional Jewish parenticide, shamelessly attempts to turn reality on its head.
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Zionism, like the fictional Jewish parenticide, shamelessly attempts to turn reality on its head.
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