Definitions for matricide

matricide mat·ri·cide

Spelling: [ma-tri-sahyd, mey-]
IPA: /ˈmæ trɪˌsaɪd, ˈmeɪ-/

Matricide is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 478 anagrams from letters in matricide (acdeiimrt).

Definitions for matricide

noun

  1. the act of killing one's mother.
  2. a person who kills his or her mother.

Origin of matricide

1585-95; Latin mātricīdium (def 1), mātricīda (def 2); see matri-, -cide

Examples for matricide

Woman is considered inviolable; matricide is the blackest of all crimes: it summons all men to retribution.

Will she go to Rome and accuse me of matricide before the Senate and the people?

Eumenides: The prophet (Apollo) bade thee then become a matricide?

If I had put “matricide” on the Internet right after I had finished it, you would not be interviewing me right now.

A man may be quietly parasitic upon his mother, and yet incapable of matricide.

During the Cimbric, P. Malleolus was guilty of the first matricide.

As in similar psychological situations, patricide and matricide followed.

Absolution to any parricide, matricide, or fratricide, for three ducats.

And was he now called upon to advise the most feasible way in which a matricide could be accomplished?

Erinnyes—Ay, rely on dead men's aid, When guilty of matricide!

Word Value for matricide
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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