CIDUM
- Suicide, the killing of one's self
- Familial killing terms:
- Avunculicide, the killing of one's uncle
- Filicide, the killing of one's child
- Mariticide, the killing of one's husband
- Matricide, the killing of one's mother
- Nepoticide, the killing of one's nephew
- Parricide, the killing of one's parents or another close relative
- Patricide, the killing of one's father
- Prolicide, is the killing of one's offspring
- Sororicide, the killing of one's sister
- Uxoricide, the killing of one's wife
- Non-familial killing terms from the same root:
- Deicide is the killing of a god
- Ecocide is the killing of the ecology of planet Earth
- Genocide is the killing of a large group of people, usually a specific and entire ethnic, racial, religious or national group
- Genucide is the killing of the human species by the human species
- Homicide is the killing of any human
- Infanticide, the killing of an infant from birth to 12 months
- Regicide is the killing of a monarch (king or ruler)
- Speciacide is a term for the potential mass suicide of the human species by overpopulation or global warming
- Tyrannicide is the killing of a tyrant
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