infanticide
pronunciation
How to pronounce infanticide in British English:
UK [ɪnˈfæntɪsaɪd]
How to pronounce infanticide in American English:
US [ɪnˈfæntɪˌsaɪd]
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- Noun:
- a person who murders an infant
- murdering an infant
Word Origin
- infanticide (n.)
- 1650s, "the killing of infants;" 1670s, "one who kills an infant," from infant + -cide.
Example
- 1. Would life in the tundra justify infanticide ?
- 2. Not surprisingly , maternal infanticide is mainly a crime of poor , single women .
- 3. In some species , such as lions and langurs , this results in deliberate infanticide .
- 4. The result has long been a surplus of men , because of female infanticide or excess female deaths through neglect .
- 5. Male rats sometimes eat their young rather than nurture them , which makes them a poor model for studying how fatherhood affects the brains of species that frown on infanticide .