Synonyms of parricide

parricide

noun

as in patricide

Related Words

• patricide
• matricide
• regicide
• fratricide
• filicide
• murder
• homicide
• uxoricide
• slaying
• manslaughter
• massacre
• foul play
• killing
• slaughter
• bloodshed
• blood
• execution
• rubout
• butchery
• assassination
• destruction
• carnage
• decimation
• chance-medley
• euthanasia
• assisted suicide
• hit
• mercy killing
• physician-assisted suicide

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of parricide

But instead of employing a ball gown, glass slippers, and a grand carriage made from a pumpkin, the renegade maid comes to her damsel in distress armed with a different kind of escape plan—one involving an axe and a double parricide. — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026

The Avici hell is the lowest and most terrible level of the eight hot hells of Buddhism, where those who’ve committed serious crimes (like parricide) must face constant suffering. — Regina Kim, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026

This is what's known as a parricide, where somebody kills their parents. — Lori A Bashian , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 5 Jan. 2026

Everything seems to be pointing toward parricide, but the future is no simpler than the past. — Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, 2 Jan. 2020

Macron’s ascent to the presidency began, like a certain Greek tragedy, with parricide. — Arthur Goldhammer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2018

But University of Florida criminologist Kathleen Heide, who specializes in parricide or children who kill their parents, has said that the majority of kids are driven to kill a parent by severe trauma at the hands of that parent. — Mary Emily O'Hara, NBC News, 22 May 2017

To write in Baldwin’s wake means to displace the father-teacher in a Whitmanesque act of parricide—not to dutifully shoulder the same historical burdens, but to comprehend one’s own historical moment more clearly. — Ismail Muhammad, Slate Magazine, 15 Feb. 2017