Fratricide and Sororicide

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Fratricide noun - The murder of your sibling.

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Sororicide and fratricide are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sororicide" instead a noun "Fratricide".

Nearby Word: fratricidal

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Fratricide and sororicide are semantically related. You can use "Fratricide" instead a noun "Sororicide".

Fratricide (killing a brother), patricide (father), sororicide (sister), regicide (monarch), matricide (mother), avunculicide (uncle), mass murder, murder-suicide, massacre

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Killing a brother is technically known as "fratricide", and killing a sister is "sororicide", but many people use fratricide to refer to both.

Source: Sibling Murder

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