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Definition of -cide combining form from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

-cide

combining form
 
/saɪd/
 
/saɪd/
in nouns
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  1. the act of killing
    • genocide
    • homicide
    • regicide (= killing a king or queen)
  2. a person or thing that kills
    • insecticide
    3. Word Originvia French; sense (1) from Latin -cidium; sense (2) from Latin -cida, both from caedere ‘kill’.
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