uxoricidenoun [ U ]
/ʌkˈsɔː.rɪ.saɪd//ʌkˈsɔːr.ɪ.saɪd/formalthe crime of murdering your wife:
Younger women, relative to older women, are at higher risk of uxoricide - being murdered by their husbands.
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- The High Court has confirmed his conviction for uxoricide.
- In the following work, we are going to explore the psychopathological profile of a borderline personality disorder in a case of uxoricide.
- I have concluded that ill-treating a dog or any other pet in England is considered far worse than uxoricide.
- These stories of uxoricide - the murder of a wife by her husband - are scary.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Murder & attempted murder
- assassinate
- assassination
- attempt
- blow sb away
- blow sb's brains out idiom
- bump
- dispatch
- lynch
- lynch law
- manslaughter
- martyr
- martyred
- necklace
- poison
- shoot sb down
- slain
- slay
- slaying
- slew 1
- throttle
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