English Explanatory Dictionary

urbicidal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Pertaining to or having the nature of urbicide, that being the deliberate “killing” of a city by the razing of distinctive physical manifestations of its urban identity, stifling of the social activity therein, and its general destruction as an edifice of civilisation.
  2. Inimical to the vitality of a city.

Pronunciation

/ɜːbɪˈsaɪdəl/

Word forms

urbicidal

Etymology

Latin urb(s) (“city”) + English -icidal (literally, “city-killing”).

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