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MARITICIDE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mariticide mean?
• MARITICIDE (noun)
The noun MARITICIDE has 1 sense:
1. the murder of a husband by his wife
Familiarity information: MARITICIDE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The murder of a husband by his wife
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("mariticide" is a kind of...):
execution; murder; slaying (unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being)
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