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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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After this act of matricide, James' descent into evil feels almost Shakespearean.
He wants to distance himself from the horror of the matricide he was obliged to accomplish.
The would-be matricide, by the way, will not be charged and social services are dealing with the matter.
A man may be quietly parasitic upon his mother, and yet incapable of matricide.
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.
He's set horrific tales of drug overdoses, chainsaw murders and matricide to a jubilant beat.

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