Usually means: Killing of one's own wife.
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  1. uxoricide: Merriam-Webster
  2. uxoricide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. uxoricide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. uxoricide: Collins English Dictionary
  5. uxoricide: Vocabulary.com
  6. uxoricide: Wordnik
  7. uxoricide: Wiktionary
  8. uxoricide: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. uxoricide: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. uxoricide: Dictionary.com
  11. Uxoricide: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Uxoricide: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. uxoricide: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. uxoricide: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  15. Uxoricide: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. uxoricide: FreeDictionary.org
  17. uxoricide: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. uxoricide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. uxoricide: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. uxoricide: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uxoricide: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. Uxoricide: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (uxoricide)

▸ noun:  One who murders his or her wife.
▸ noun:  The murdering of one's own wife.

Similar:
uxorophobia, parenticide, feticide, tyrannicide, hospiticide, liberticide, genocider, exterminatrix, abominator, ostracizer, more...

Opposite:
mariticide, spousal homicide, spousal murder

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Similar:
uxorophobia, parenticide, feticide, tyrannicide, hospiticide, liberticide, genocider, exterminatrix, abominator, ostracizer, more...

Opposite:
mariticide, spousal homicide, spousal murder



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