Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

policide

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: poli-cide
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The intentional destruction of a nation.

noun

The intentional destruction of political activity in a society.

Example Sentences

"In Chile the project of policide—annihilating the Left and more broadly, Center and Left cultural understandings of politics as a process of popular mobilization, via massive killing and abduction of real and alleged Left activists, complemented by additional layers of persecution and fright heaped on dissidents of any political stripe—yielded issues of comprehensibility and representation similar to those in classic cases of genocide."

Etymology

Coined based on Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city; state”) and the suffix -cide.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: -cide

Questions

What does policide mean?: The intentional destruction of a nation.
Where does policide come from?: Coined based on Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city; state”) and the suffix -cide.

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