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Meaning of "uxoricidal" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UXORICIDAL

uxoricidal  [ʌkˌsɔːrɪˈsaɪdəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UXORICIDAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Uxoricidal is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UXORICIDAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of uxoricidal in the English dictionary

The definition of uxoricidal in the dictionary is of or relating to the act of killing your wife.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UXORICIDAL


acaricidal
əˌkærɪˈsaɪdəl
apsidal
æpˈsaɪdəl
bactericidal
bækˌtɪərɪˈsaɪdəl
biocidal
ˌbaɪəʊˈsaɪdəl
fratricidal
ˌfrætrɪˈsaɪdəl
fungicidal
ˌfʌndʒɪˈsaɪdəl
genocidal
ˌdʒenəˈsaɪdəl
germicidal
ˌdʒɜːmɪˈsaɪdəl
herbicidal
ˌhɜːbɪˈsaɪdəl
homicidal
ˌhɒmɪˈsaɪdəl
insecticidal
ɪnˌsektɪˈsaɪdəl
larvicidal
ˌlɑːvɪˈsaɪdəl
pesticidal
ˌpɛstɪˈsaɪdəl
seidel
ˈsaɪdəl
sidle
ˈsaɪdəl
spermicidal
ˌspɜːmɪˈsaɪdəl
suicidal
ˌsuːɪˈsaɪdəl
trypanocidal
ˌtrɪpənəˈsaɪdəl
tyrannicidal
tɪˌrænɪˈsaɪdəl
virucidal
ˌvaɪrəˈsaɪdəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UXORICIDAL

uvula
uvulae
uvular
uvularly
uvulitis
UWB
UWIST
Uxbridge
Uxmal
uxorial
uxorially
uxoricide
uxorilocal
uxorious
uxoriously
uxoriousness
uy
Uys
uz

WORDS THAT END LIKE UXORICIDAL

algicidal
bridal
deicidal
ecocidal
feticidal
filicidal
infanticidal
loculicidal
matricidal
molluscicidal
nematicidal
nematocidal
parasiticidal
parricidal
patricidal
prolicidal
regicidal
sororicidal
spermatocidal
sporicidal
viricidal

Synonyms and antonyms of uxoricidal in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «uxoricidal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UXORICIDAL

Find out the translation of uxoricidal to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of uxoricidal from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «uxoricidal» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

uxoricidal
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

uxoricida
570 millions of speakers

English

uxoricidal
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

uxoricidal
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

uxoricidal
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

uxoricidal
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

uxoricidal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

uxoricidal
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

uxoricidal
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Uxoricidal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

uxoricidal
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

uxoricidal
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

uxoricidal
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Uxoricidal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

uxoricidal
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

uxoricidal
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Uxoricidal
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

uxoricidal
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

uxoricidal
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

uxoricidal
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

uxoricidal
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

uxoricidal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

uxoricidal
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

uxoricidal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

uxoricidal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uxoricidal
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of uxoricidal

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UXORICIDAL»

The term «uxoricidal» is normally little used and occupies the 145.025 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UXORICIDAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about uxoricidal

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UXORICIDAL»

Discover the use of uxoricidal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to uxoricidal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Southern Reporter. Second Series: Cases Argued and ...
TONEY et al. No. 38785. Supreme Court of Mississippi. May 25, 1953. Suit to cancel as cloud on title claim asserted by uxoricidal husband by virtue of inheritance from his deceased spouse. The Chancery Court, Marion County, Lester Clark, ...
‎1953
2
The Dynamics of Murder: Kill or Be Killed
... for independence or self-direction.39 Researchers have noted a correlation between uxoricidal men and their victim wives and abandonment, separation, rejection, and divorce. In George Barnard and colleagues' study of spouse homicide, ...
R. Barri Flowers, 2013
3
Bartleby Snopes Issue 7
Around her neck hung a simple silver necklace and from it dangled a key. He smiled as lightning struck it. He wondered what Dr. Krauss would make of the vision and then decided against sharing it. He didn't want uxoricidal fantasies added to ...
Nathaniel Tower
4
Shanghai's Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban ...
... Scheherezade never told the uxoricidal Sultan Shahriyar.”3 This was the city of the legendary Paramount ballroom. With its Deco fixtures, its large sprung dance floor, and its small upper floor of glass plating with colored lights underneath, ...
Andrew David Field, 2001
5
The Politics of Big Fantasy: The Ideologies of Star Wars, ...
... is no more patriotic to Anakin's mind than Dooku's Separatist rebellion. The Jedi's tumultuous anxieties come to be fixed on Padmé to be in the process of betraying him in league with Obi-Wan, a paranoia that comes to its uxoricidal breaking ...
John C. McDowell, 2014
6
The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader
I am not identifying here the black female as the focal point of cultural and political inferiority. I do not mean to pose the black female as an object of the primitive, uxoricidal nightmares, or interrupted nocturnal emissions (elevated to the status ...
Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley, Alan Girvin, 2000
7
The Perversion of Virtue: Understanding Murder-Suicide
This well-known framework was proposed by Marzuk and colleagues:2 I. Spousal or consortial Perpetrator (a) Spouse (b) Consort Type of homicide (a) Uxoricidal (Spouse killing) (b) Consortial (Killing of lover) ů II. Familial Perpetrator (a) ...
Thomas Joiner, 2014
8
Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded
'My most humble duty to my lord, and best wishes to the olive branches' (Letters of George Cheyne to the Countess of Huntingdon, ed. C. F. Mullett (1940), 45 (23 July 1735)). such an Herod: Herod the Great, uxoricidal King of Judaea.
Samuel Richardson, Thomas Keymer, Alice Wakely, 2001
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2011
1. Brockington, Iohn: Is the Script Relevant? Further Evidence from a Nevari- script "Rämäyana" Manuscript. 17. Fitzgerald, Iames L.: The Boy 'Slowpoke' as Deep Thinker: In Defense of 'Straying' Wives against Father's Uxoricidal Rage. 31 .
Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2013
10
Once Upon a Kingdom: Myth, Hegemony, and Identity
In positioning Benin within the vicinity of Igbuzo, our narrator operates within the same mythic geography wherein the Oba of Benin is accounted (in Ohadike 's testimonies) to have led the punitive expedition in pursuit of his uxoricidal ...
Isidore Okpewho, 1998

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UXORICIDAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term uxoricidal is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Home Sweet Hell' Review: Katherine Heigl and Patrick Wilson …
Not all wishes are so noble, of course, as is the case with “Home Sweet Hell,” a rancid comedy fueled by male entitlement and uxoricidal rage. Starring ... «TheWrap, Mar 15»
2
The trouble with Chasing Shadows' 'sort-of-autistic' hero
Having appeared as the uxoricidal Malcolm Webster in ITV's The Widower earlier this year, he becomes surely one of the few actors to have played a serial killer ... «The Guardian, Sep 14»
3
PlayStation 2: Best of a Bygone Era; Top 10 PS2 Titles
Silent Hill 3 - Silent Hill 2 had the uber creepy pyramid head and a bizarre uxoricidal plot, which is par for the course with Konami and Silent Hill overall, but ... «Gamenguide, May 13»
4
Judge to Taxpayers: You'll Pay for Murderer's Sex Change
And so the uxoricidal she-man will get his sex-change operation. Kosilek, who lost a battle to get taxpayer-subsidized electrolysis, will, naturally, also receive all ... «The New American, Sep 12»
5
Lifecoach: stop stress from causing stomach pain
... monarch (described by the Venetian Ambassador as ''the handsomest potentate I ever set eyes on'') to despotic (and uxoricidal) tyrant attributes his change of ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 10»
6
Bluebeard, review
... is a terrifying one: to marry a local lord, Monsieur Barbe Bleue (Dominique Thomas), who is notorious for his wealth, his ugliness, and his uxoricidal habits. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 10»
7
When four arts work together
Kramer, 32, is a bit of a genre bender who came to attention last year with a savage realisation of Birtwistle's uxoricidal opera, Punch and Judy. Raised on a ... «La Scena Musicale, Apr 09»
8
Thank Henry VIII for laying those foundations of freedom
... Dr Starkey knows that the abundant elements of soap opera in the life of a man who began as a model of catholic chivalry and ended as an uxoricidal monster ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 09»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Uxoricidal [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/uxoricidal>. Apr 2024 ».
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