fratricide
IPA: frˈætrʌsaɪd
noun
- The killing of one's brother (or sister).
- (military, by extension) The intentional or unintentional killing of a comrade in arms.
- (military, by extension) The undesirable situation where the separate missiles from a MIRV interfere with each other as they explode.
- A person who commits fratricide.
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Examples of "fratricide" in Sentences
- The story is the fratricide, not the individual.
- It was just a comment about the fratricide we see here.
- Gille Brigte's fratricide effectively prevented any deal.
- You need to STOP adding Fratricide to the black metal band page.
- Accidentally doing so wouldn't strictly be fratricide in that context.
- The notion of 'fratricide' is probably more appropriate in this regard.
- Information is necessary both to avoid fratricide and target the enemy.
- Already covered by Patricide, Matricide, filicide, fratricide, and sororicide.
- The U.S. military refers to it as fratricide, which is the killing of a brother.
- He also thought that the problem posed by "fratricide" would preclude a successful first strike.
- An investigation was immediately launched, and several documents show that the local chain of command was largely convinced it was fratricide from the beginning.
- In service as an Army Ranger, Tillman was shot by another American in what the military calls "fratricide," but what the rest of the nation knows as "friendly fire."
- Tillman was on his second tour of duty when he was killed in Afghanistan -- a victim of "fratricide," inadvertently killed by his own troops during an ill-fated expedition.
- This caused the Venetian government to seize their treasure and to commission the statues as a cautionary, perpetual reminder that fratricide is considered very, very rude in that part of the world.
- Frank J. Sulloway in his Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics and Creative Lives (New York: Random House, 1996) gives a paragraph to the Díaz brothers (273) and throughout his book refers to fratricide and sibling rivalry.
- The poem proceeds to move fear away from political theology and ultimately toward a secular account of legitimate retributive justice — in which fear is invoked as a highly specific accompaniment to the notion of deserved punishment for the "fratricide" that
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