Fratricide

Word FRATRICIDE
Character 10
Hyphenation frat ri cide
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Fratricide"

What do we mean by fratricide?

The killing of one's brother or sister. noun

One who has killed one's brother or sister. noun

The accidental killing of an ally caused by a discharge of a military weapon. noun

One who murders or kills a brother. noun

The act of murdering or killing a brother. noun

The act of one who murders or kills his own brother. noun

One who murders or kills his own brother. noun

The killing of one's brother (or sister). noun

A person who commits this crime. noun

The intentional or unintentional killing of a comrade in arms. noun

A person who murders their brother or sister noun

Fire that injures or kills an ally noun

The murder of your sibling noun

The killing of one's brother (or sister).

A person who commits this crime.

(by extension) The intentional or unintentional killing of a comrade in arms.

(by extension) The undesirable situation where the separate missiles from a MIRV interfere with each other as they explode.

N 1: a person who murders their brother or sister 2: the act of murdering your own brother or sister 3: fire that injures or kills an ally, or fellow countryman, commonly referred to as friendly fire Urban Dictionary

Fratricide is when you kill your own brother. Fratricide is when you kill a brother in arms (soldier or political/religous brother) who you are fighting with either on purpose or by accident. Urban Dictionary

That one Steam award you get when you kill the companion cube in Portal. You know, the one that made MatPat from Game Theory make a video about how the cubes have dead bodies in them. (also, the actual definition is killing your brother/sister) Urban Dictionary

It means when one is killing their own family or society members of the same group. Urban Dictionary

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The word "fratricide" in example sentences

An investigation was immediately launched, and several documents show that the local chain of command was largely convinced it was fratricide from the beginning. ❋ Unknown (2005)

This caused the Venetian government to seize their treasure and to commission the statues as a cautionary, perpetual reminder that fratricide is considered very, very rude in that part of the world. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Frank J. Sulloway in his Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics and Creative Lives (New York: Random House, 1996) gives a paragraph to the Díaz brothers (273) and throughout his book refers to fratricide and sibling rivalry. ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

The U.S. military refers to it as fratricide, which is the killing of a brother. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The poem proceeds to move fear away from political theology and ultimately toward a secular account of legitimate retributive justice — in which fear is invoked as a highly specific accompaniment to the notion of deserved punishment for the "fratricide" that ❋ Unknown (2008)

In service as an Army Ranger, Tillman was shot by another American in what the military calls "fratricide," but what the rest of the nation knows as "friendly fire." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Tillman was on his second tour of duty when he was killed in Afghanistan -- a victim of "fratricide," inadvertently killed by his own troops during an ill-fated expedition. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He also thought that the problem posed by "fratricide" would preclude a successful first strike. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It would be a grave intellectual mistake, if you've read Genesis, to speak of fratricide as if it were invented by videogames. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In Vietnam, friendly-fire casualties-or "fratricide," as the Pentagon calls them-skyrocketed to somewhere between 15 and 20 percent of all casualties. ❋ Unknown (2008)

To grossly oversimplify: the erosion of Russian capabilities, combined with new, overwhelming warhead yields and the "accuracy revolution" in U.S. nuclear forces, has largely obviated the problems of "fratricide" (the prospect that U.S. missiles on the attack would destroy each other, leaving their targets safe) that once helped make a disarming strike impossible to achieve. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Tillman "fratricide" by Pat Herrick on Tuesday, Apr 24, 2007 at 2: 38: 42 PM ❋ Unknown (2007)

COOPER: The bonds between those fighting in war are so intense that when there's an incident of friendly fire, they often refer to it as "fratricide," the killing of a brother. ❋ Unknown (2003)

People are killed in combat, but friendly fire makes matters all the worse, and it's what the U.S. military calls "fratricide," meaning that the killing of a brother. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Pat Tillman, the National Football League star turned Army Ranger who was killed by friendly fire -- or "fratricide," as the military puts it -- in Afghanistan in April 2004, was a strange event in recent American history. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mother Dannie's dogged pursuit of answers only raised more questions; finally, the Army admitted that Tillman might have died via accidental "fratricide," or friendly fire. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Today's [death toll] si 2,100. Sadly 600 of these were from incidents of fratricide. Many of our [brothers in arms] have been killed by fratricide, don't let you, or your [battle buddy] be the next one to be shot up by a jack legor a blue falcon. ❋ PFC Karma (2006)

Cain committed [fratricide] when he killed his own brother [Abel] in the Book of Genesis. In 9/11 the terrorists not only committed [mass murder] but they had also committed acts of fratricide against their own Islamic brothers. ❋ The Moody Poet (2007)

Jeff: You get to the part in Portal where you have to [incinerate] the [companion cube]? Brian: Yeah. It's a shame. That cube was like a brother to me. Jeff: Whatever [fratricide] is, I don't want any part in it. ❋ Mikeybrine (2020)

Brothers killing each other for the [throne] [led] to [fratricidal war]. ❋ AZRAEL34 (2022)

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