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What does matricide mean?

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Noun
  1. The killing of one's mother.
  2. A person who kills his or her mother.
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And was he now called upon to advise the most feasible way in which a matricide could be accomplished?
Will she go to Rome and accuse me of matricide before the Senate and the people?
In my heart I was already no longer the big angry man, but a stupid and selfish little boy who was on the point of committing matricide.
After a series of twists and turns, Orestes makes himself known to Electra and they avenge their father's murder by committing an act of matricide.
He wants to distance himself from the horror of the matricide he was obliged to accomplish.
I can even, to a lesser degree, comprehend stalkers, serial killers, matricide, fratricide, genocide.

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