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domicide

noun

  1. The deliberate destruction of a home or homes.

    countable, uncountable

    Currently, no word exists for the action of destroying peoples’ homes and/or expelling them from their homeland. We suggest the neologism “domicide,” the deliberate destruction of home that causes suffering to its inhabitants.

Where it comes from

From Latin domus (“house, home”) + -icide. Coined by J. Douglas Porteous and Sandra E. Smith.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry domicide (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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