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Origin: -cide

-icide

 suffix
     
-icide also -cide [in nouns]
someone or something that kills a particular person or thing, or the act of killing:
insecticide (=chemical substance for killing insects)
suicide (=the act of killing yourself)
—-icidal suffix [in adjectives]
—-icidally suffix [in adverbs]
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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