homicidally
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9.8
- adverb
- /ˌhɒmɪˈsaɪdəli/
- NSFW
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homicidamente
- She spoke of her homicidally aggressive plans, leaving her friends in shock.
Examples
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His homicidally angry outbursts worried everyone in the office.
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Homicidally.
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His anger was directed towards the terrible losses, specifically against the generals behind the lines, safe from the fighting, and seemingly homicidally ordering the soldiers forward into battle after battle.
Academic text (2005) -
Called Comanches by the Spanish, the Southern Snakes were true blue Texans, homicidally wary of foreigners and death to trifle with.
Fiction book (1995) -
The prisoner was reported to have homicidally violent tendencies during his time in isolation.
Synonyms
142
6.1
In a cruel or very harsh way that causes harm
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5.7
In a cruel and violent way
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6.7
In a very violent and cruel way
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8.2
In a very angry, violent way that shows a wish to hurt or kill someone
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7.5
In a violent way that causes a lot of bleeding and injury
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7.5
In a cruel and violent way that shows no kindness
In a violent way that causes many people to be hurt or killed
How Violent
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Etymology
The word homicidally comes from the word homicide, which combines homo meaning 'man' and the part -cide meaning 'kill', the same -cide you see in suicide. So something done homicidally is violently deadly or like it could kill someone.