Meaning & use
regicide
The killing of a king or queen, or a person who commits this act.
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The play dramatizes the regicide that plunges the kingdom into civil war.
Historians still debate whether the conspirators intended regicide from the start.
A note on using this word
Formed like "homicide" and "suicide"; can refer either to the act itself or to the person who commits it.
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