1. The intentional destruction or killing of the fetus; aborticide: Feticide, as a legal term, refers to the deliberate or incidental killing of a fetus as a result of a human act, such as a punch or kick in the abdomen of a pregnant woman.
2. The intentional destruction of a human fetus: Feticide can also be caused by using an agent or drug, and can be extremely dangerous to the mother.

Feticide does not refer to the death of a fetus from entirely natural causes, or through the spontaneous abortion of a pregnancy where the life of the fetus could not be maintained artificially ex utero.