Synonyms of regicide

regicide

noun

as in patricide

Related Words

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of regicide

They were rewarded for their regicide when Thatcher’s successor, John Major, unexpectedly won the following election in 1992. — Ian King, CNBC, 24 June 2026

Unlike the Conservative Party, however, Labour does not have a history of regicide; the party has never mounted an official challenge against a sitting prime minister. — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 11 May 2026

The radical shifts in France — regicide, the Committee of Public Safety’s terror, and expansionist campaigns — dissolved the moral and practical basis for the alliance. — Daniel Ross Goodman, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026

With examples drawn from Scripture and across the length of history, Paine commits rhetorical regicide. — Matthew Redmond august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025

The raw power grab that excites Lady Macbeth and incites her husband to regicide feels especially pertinent now, when the dangers of autocracy loom over political discussions. — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024

Those Tories by the way have a particular penchant for political regicide before voters get the chance. — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023

Stephen Root, in a single scene as Porter, lifts the grim, forensic business of regicide and its aftermath into the realm of knockabout farce. — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021