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1、英语中包含词根cide的单词Cide Words Have you ever noticed the connection between words like suicide, homicide, genocide, pesticide and fungicide? They all end in cide, of course, but their meanings are linked too. They all concern death, destruction, extermination and deliberate killing. The cide ending origin

2、ates from the Latin word caedere meaning to kill. Remember that next time you consider ordering a glass of cider! The five examples above are not the only cide words, however. (Although they are perhaps the most common.) On this page youll find about 160 such words (almost 200 if you count variant s

3、pellings) culled from a variety of dictionaries. The words below are divided into the following eight categories: Killing Ones Relatives, Murdering Other People, Killing Animals, Killing Insects, Medicine (Killing Diseases), Killing Plants, Miscellaneous Killing, and Extreme Killing. Killing Ones Re

4、lations Here are 13 words for killing members of ones family. Generally the word can be used both for the act of killing, and the killer: an uxoricide is one who commits uxoricide. Killing oneself suicide, selfcide Killing ones father patricide Killing ones mother matricide Killing ones parent(s) pa

5、renticide Killing ones brother fratricide Killing ones sister sororicide Killing ones husband mariticide, viricide Killing ones wife uxoricide Killing ones son or filicide, prolicide daughter Killing a close relative parricide Killing Other People Murder Killing a man, or any person homicide femicid

6、e, gynecide, gynaecide infanticide Killing a woman Killing an infant aborticide, feticide, foeticide Killing old men senicide Killing a king regicide Killing a lord or master hericide Killing a philosopher philosophicide Killing a prophet or poet vaticide Killing a czar czaricide Killing a bishop ep

7、iscopicide Killing an apprentice prenticecide Brahminicide, Killing a Brahmin Brahmanicide Killing a Spartacus member Sparticide Killing a modernist modernicide Killing a guest or host hospiticide Killing a favorite nepoticide Killing a friend ambicide Killing an enemy hosticide Killing a heretic he

8、reticide, heretocide Killing a tyrant tyrannicide Killing of Christ Christicide Killing a fetus Killing Animals Slaughter There are terms for the killing of many types of animal. Here, in alphabetical order of animal, are 33 such cide words: Killing of bears ursicide Killing of birds avicide, birdic

9、ide Killing of boars apricide Killing of bulls tauricide Killing of cats felicide Killing of chickens or gallinicide turkeys Killing of cows vaccicide Killing of deer cervicide Killing of dogs canicide Killing of elephants elephanticide Killing of fish piscicide Killing of fowls gallicide Killing of

10、 fox vulpicide Killing of goats hiricide Killing of kangaroos macropocide Killing of leeches Killing of mice Killing of moles Killing of oxen Killing of partridges Killing of poultry Killing of rats Killing of reptiles Killing of rodents Killing of seals Killing of serpents Killing of snails/mollusc

11、s Killing of sparrows Killing of vermin Killing of whales Killing of wolves hirudicide muricide talpicide bovicide perdricide poultrycide raticide herpecide, herpicide rodenticide sealicide serpenticide molluscacide sparrowcide verminicide ceticide lupidide Killing Insects Killing of insects Killing

12、 of adult insects Killing of insect larvae Killing of insect eggs Killing of pests Killing of ants Killing of aphids Killing of bedbugs Killing of bees Killing of fleas Killing of flies Killing of gnats or mosquitos Killing of lice Killing of mites Killing of mosquitos Killing of spiders or scorpion

13、s Killing of ticks Killing of wasps insecticide adulticide, imagocide, imagicide larvicide ovicide pesticide formicide, formicicide aphidicide, aphicide cimicide apicide pulicide, pulicicide muscacide, muscicide culicicide, culicide lousicide, pediculicide acaricide, miticide anophelicide, mosquitoc

14、ide arachnidcide tickicide vespacide Medicines And Drugs That Exterminate In the same way that fungicide is used to kill fungal spores, there are thousands of medicines and drugs used to kill all manner of bacteria and diseases. The words for such substances often end in cide, for example: Amebae An

15、imal parasites Anthrax Bacilli Bacteria Blood corpuscles Blood flukes Cancerous cells Cells Diarrhea-causing parasites Fever (reducing fever) Germs Gonorrhea Intestinal worms Leukocytes Malarial parasites Microbes Nematode worms Oxyuris worms Parasites Parasitic bacteria Protozoans Roundworms Scabie

16、s Sleeping sickness infection Sperm Spirilla bacteria Spirochetes bacteria Spores Staph Streptococci bacteria Tapeworms Toxins Tuberculosis bacilli Viruses Killing Plantlife Killing of algae algaecide, algicide amebacide, amebicide, amoebicide epizocide anthracocide bacillicide bactericide, bacteria

17、cide, bacteriocide globulicide schistosomacide, schistosomicide tumorcide cytocide trichomonacide febricide germicide gonococcide, gonoccocide helminthicide, vermicide leukocide, leucocide gametocide, plasmodicide, schizonticide microbicide nematocide, nematicide, nemacide oxyuricide parasiticide tr

18、eponemicide protozoacide ascaricide, filaricide, lumbricide scabicide, scabieticide trypanocide, trypanosomacide spermicide, spermatocide, spermatozoicide spirillicide spirocheticide, spirochaeticide fungicide, sporicide staphylocide, staphylococcide, staphylococcicide streptococcicide taenicide, ta

19、eniacide, teniacide, tenicide toxicide, toxinicide tuberculocide viruscide, virucide Killing of flowers Killing of plants Killing of weeds floricide herbicide, phytocide weedicide Other Death, Annihilation, and Obliteration Killing a god Killing of a giant Killing of a monster Killing putrid things

20、Destruction of books Destroying words Destruction of a culture Destruction of ancient buildings/monuments Destruction of laws Destruction of liberty Destruction of life Ruining a suitors chances Ruining someones reputation Killing the mind (brainwashing) Killing a faith Killing facts (distorting the

21、 truth) Killing someone with a motor vehicle deicide gianticide monstricide putricide tomecide logocide, verbicide ethnocide petracide legicide liberticide biocide suitorcide famicide menticide fideicide facticide autocide Extreme Death, Killing, Destruction, and Extermination And finally, weve save

22、d the best (or worst) for last. These five words refer to killing on a massive scale: Destruction of everything onmicide Destruction of the entire world mundicide Destruction of the natural world ecocide Killing of all people populicide Extermination of an entire racial, political, or cultural genocide group