matricide

[ UK /mˈætɹɪsˌa‍ɪd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who murders their mother
  2. the murder of your mother
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How To Use matricide In A Sentence

  • He's set horrific tales of drug overdoses, chainsaw murders and matricide to a jubilant beat.
  • The Chorus of Furies insists that no one can save him from their clutches, because the crime of matricide is an unforgivable sin no matter what, adding that they want to drain away all of his blood and take his life.
  • After this act of matricide, James' descent into evil feels almost Shakespearean.
  • The second immeasurable crime is matricide, killing one's mother.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The Chorus replies that it is their duty to avenge crimes of matricide.
  • I was really clobbered with a sense of the shock of the matricide victim.
  • I can even, to a lesser degree, comprehend stalkers, serial killers, matricide, fratricide, genocide.
  • Her mother, Clytemnestra, has been driven mad by dreams of her own death at the hands of her son, Orestes, who accomplishes that matricide as revenge for his mother's murder of his father, Agamemnon.
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