Matricide

/mˈætɹɪsˌa‍ɪd/

/mˈætɹɪsˌaɪd/

[noun]

Matricide

[NOUN]

the act of killing one's own mother

a person who murders their mother

Examples

1. Okay, so that's the first case of matricide.

2. An Atlantian advisor named Volco accused him of matricide but he never had any evidence so he was banished to the surface world.

3. So Orestes promptly begins hallucinating that the Furies are torturing him for the crime of matricide, which was one of those things you just super hella weren't supposed to do in ancient Greece.