List of types of killing

This is a list of types of killing. In the English language, terms for types of killing often end in the suffix -cide.

Killing of self

• Suicide – intentional killing of self.
  • Autocide – suicide by automobile.
  • Medicide – a suicide accomplished with the aid of a physician
  • Self-immolation – suicide by setting oneself on fire, a form of extreme protest.
  • Suicide by cop – a suicide by acting threatening and inducing law enforcement personnel to shoot one to death.

Killing of family

• Aborticide – the act of killing a fetus in the womb
• Familicide - is a multiple-victim homicide where a killer's spouse and children are slain.
• Feticide (or foeticide) - the act of killing a fetus in the uterus or causing an abortion
• Filicide – the act of a parent killing his or her son or daughter.
• Fratricide – the act of killing a brother, also in military context death by friendly fire.
• Geronticide – the abandonment of the elderly to die, commit suicide or be killed. See also Senicide.
• Honor-killing – the act of killing a family member who has or was perceived to have brought disgrace to the family.
• Infanticide – the act of killing a child within the first year of its life.
• Mariticide - the act of killing one's spouse, especially the murder of a husband by his wife.
• Matricide – the act of killing one's mother.
• Neonaticide - the act of killing an infant within the first twenty-four hours or month (varies by individual and jurisdiction) of its life.
• Parricide – (also Parenticide) the killing of one's mother or father or other close relative.
• Patricide – the act of killing of one's father.
• Prolicide – the act of killing one's own children.
• Senicide – the killing of one's elderly family members when they can no longer work or become a burden.
• Sororicide – the act of killing one's sister.
• Uxoricide – the act of killing one's wife

Killing of others

• Amicicide – the act of killing a friend.
• Androcide - the systematic killing of men.
• Capital punishment – the judicial killing of a human being for odious crimes.
• Democide - the murder of any person or people by a government
• Ecocide - the destruction of the natural environment by such activity as war, overexploitation of resources, or pollution
• Euthanasia (also mercy killing) – the killing of any being for compassionate reasons i.e. significant injury or disease.
• Femicide (also Gynecide, Gynaecide, or Gynocide) – the systematic killing of women
• Gendercide - the systematic killing of members of a specific sex, either males or females
• Genocide – the systematic extermination of an entire national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.
• Homicide – the act of killing of a person
• Human sacrifice – the killing of a human for religious reasons
• Murder - the malicious and unlawful killing of a human by another human
  • Manslaughter - Murder, but under legal mitigating factors
• Omnicide – the act of killing all humans, to create intentional extinction of the human species.
• Populicide – the slaughter of the people.
• Xenocide – the act of killing an entire alien species

Killing of superiors

Giganticide: David hoists the severed head of Goliath.

• Deicide – the act of killing a god or divine being
• Dominicide – the act of killing one's master.
• Episcopicide – the act of killing a bishop.
• Giganticide – the act of killing a giant.
• Regicide – the act of killing a king.
• Tyrannicide – the act of killing a tyrant.
• Vaticide – the act of killing a prophet.

Killing of intangibles

• Chronocide – the killing or wasting of time
• Famacide – the killing of another's reputation, a slander.
• Liberticide – the destruction of liberties.
• Urbicide - the destruction of a city or the stifling of an urbanization.

Killing of animals, disease, and pests

• Algaecide – a chemical agent that kills algae
• Acaricide – a chemical agent that kills mites.
• Avacide – a chemical agent that kills birds
• Bactericide – a chemical agent that kills bacteria.
• Biocide - a chemical agent that kills a broad spectrum of living organisms.
• Cervicide – the killing of deer.
• Ceticide – the killing of whales.
• Culicide – a chemical agent that kills mosquitos.
• Felicide – the killing of cats
• Fungicide - chemical agents or biological organisms used to kill or inhibit fungi or fungal spores.
• Germicide - an agent that kills germs, especially pathogenic microorganisms; a disinfectant
• Gonocide (also Gonococcicide) – an agent that kills the bacterium causing gonorrhea
• Herbicide - an agent that kills unwanted plants, a weed killer.
• Insecticide – an agent that kills unwanted insects.
• Larvicide (also Larvacide) - an insecticide targeted against the larval life stage of an insect.
• Lupicide – The killing of wolves.
• Microbicide – an agent used to kill or reduce the infectivity of microorganisms.
• Muscicide – an agent that kills fleas.
• Nemacide (also Nematicide, Nematocide) – a chemical to eradicate or kill nematodes.
• Ovacide – an agent that kills eggs of an organism particular a pest i.e. lice eggs.
• Parasiticide – a general term to describe an agent used to destroy parasites.
• Pediculicide – an agent that kills head lice.
• Pesticide – a general term to describe an agent used to destroy or repel an unwanted pest.
• Pulicicide (also Pulicide) – an agent that kills fleas.
• Raticide – an agent for killing rats.
• Scabicide – a chemical agent for killing scabies.
• Spermicide – a contraceptive agent to render sperm inert and prevent fertilization.
• Tauricide – the killing of bulls or steers.
• Teniacide (Also taeniacide, tenicide )– a chemical agent that kills tape worms.
• Vermicide - an agent used to kill parasitic intestinal worms
• Vespacide – a chemical agent that kills wasps.
• Virucide (also Viricide) - an agent capable of destroying or inhibiting viruses
• Vulpicide (also Vulpecide)- the killing of a fox by methods other than by hunting it with hounds.