amicide

alternative ambicide

1. uncountableThe act of killing a friend.

   The separated head of Namuci followed Indra, accusing him of amicide and Brahmicide, wherever Indra went.

   2006, Zacharias P Thundy, “Classical Analogues—Eastern and Western—of Sir Gawain”, in Sir Gawain and the Classical Tradition: Essays on the Ancient Antecedents

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   Friends looked on the corpse of him they loved, and among the truest mourners was the unintentional amicide.

   1881, History of Jackson County, Michigan, page 465

   Hippolito, shattered by his realization that he had almost committed “the most execrable act of amicide,” blames himself for “his blindness in not knowing his dearest friend” (495).

   2002 Autumn, Aspasia Velissariou, ““This thing was only designed for show and form”: The Vicissitudes of Resemblance in Congreve's Incognita”, in Journal of the Short Story in English, volume 39

   Perhaps 'amicide' sounds too flippant but for another Director of the CIA, William Colby, and many others, what he called the American-sponsored overthrow of Diem was the worst mistake of the Vietnam War.

   2014, A. Short, The Origins of the Vietnam War, page 270

2. uncountableThe accidental killing of a member of one's own side in warfare.

   It was called amicide. friendly fire, or blue-on-blue.

   2000, Frank L. Grzyb, A Story for All Americans: Vietnam, Victims, and Veterans, page 197

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   Fratricide (or amicide) is a terrible consequence of combat operations.

   2006, Bruce W, Fowler & William C. McCorkle, Automated Target Recognition and Fratricide Reduction

   Friendly fire, also called "amicide," "fratricide," or "blue on blue," has been a constant problem in warfare since the beginning of recorded time.

   2011 Winter, Michael J Davidson, “Friendly fire and the limits of the military justice system”, in Naval War College Review