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filicide
noun[ C or U ]
law specializeduk /ˈfɪl.ɪ.saɪd/ us /ˈfɪl.ə.saɪd/
the crime of killing your child or your children, or a case of this:
Many psychiatry books have been written on filicide, in which the victim's killer is the mother or the father.
Maternal filicides are statistically rare.
Compare
infanticide
Filicide is loosely defined as the killing of a son or daughter by a parent or step parent.
Resnick's article identifies five different types of filicide.
She admitted to smothering her infant children over a 19-year period in one of the largest cases of maternal filicide ever recorded.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Murder & attempted murder
asphyxiation
assassinate
assassination
assassination attempt
attempt
butcher
dispatch
drive-by
genocide
gun someone down
homicide
infanticide
knock
pop off
put someone to the swordidiom
regicide
rub
rub something out
slaughter
throttle
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