Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fratricide

3 senses of fratricide

Sense 1
fratricide -- (a person who murders their brother or sister)
       => murderer, liquidator, manslayer -- (a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being))

Sense 2
friendly fire, fratricide -- (fire that injures or kills an ally)
       => fire, firing -- (the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire")

Sense 3
fratricide -- (the murder of your sibling)
       => murder, slaying, execution -- (unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being)