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INFANTICIDE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does infanticide mean?
• INFANTICIDE (noun)
The noun INFANTICIDE has 2 senses:
1. a person who murders an infant
2. murdering an infant
Familiarity information: INFANTICIDE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who murders an infant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("infanticide" is a kind of...):
liquidator; manslayer; murderer (a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Murdering an infant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("infanticide" is a kind of...):
execution; murder; slaying (unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being)
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