单词	uxoricide
释义	uxoricide /ʌkˈsɔːrɪsʌɪd / noun [mass noun] 1The killing of one’s wife.Not only did he never commit uxoricide, he never hit his wife.... The risk of uxoricide increased with greater age difference between partners. Although seemingly rare, the rate of incidence of uxoricide in the United States is similar to that of childhood leukemia. 1.1 [count noun] A man who kills his wife.The Chief of Scotland Yard remains with doubt whether Arthur is an uxoricide or not.... He was an uxoricide who had crept up behind his wife one morning and slit her throat. Derivatives uxoricidal /ʌksɔːrɪˈsʌɪd(ə)l/ adjective ... Add to this already zany array of characters, a psychiatrist with his own uxoricidal fantasies, and you have a Broadway comedy. How and why the play cultivates such mixed responses toward a tyrannical, regicidal, fratricidal, uxoricidal, incestuous bogey-man will occupy our attention. He was a rock star in a glittering, perilous age, an intellectually curious, athletic charmer who became a uxoricidal, paranoid turkey-leg chomper, pursuing a male heir through six wives. Origin Mid 19th century: from Latin uxor 'wife' + -cide.
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