Pronounced: AH-luh-cute, verb
Notes: Another word I don’t know
Yesterday’s word
The word verbicide is “the willful and intentional distortion of the original meaning of a word”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
Our word comes from verb plus -icide (to kill). The word verb is from the Latin word verbum (verb).
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