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Holocaust
/ˈhoʊləkɑst/
A sacrifice that is completely burned to ashes.
📖 Definitions of "Holocaust"
- 1
A sacrifice that is completely burned to ashes.
- 2
Extensive destruction of a group (usually of people or animals), whether by deliberate agency or by natural agency (especially fire).
"1895 September 10, "ANOTHER ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST; Five Villages Burned, Five Thousand Persons Made Homeless, and Anti-Christians Organized.", in The New York Times"
- 3
In particular, a state-sponsored mass murder of an ethnic group, especially the Holocaust (which see).
- 1
To sacrifice and burn (an animal) completely.
- 2
To destroy completely, especially by fire.
- 3
(possibly nonstandard) To subject to a holocaust (mass annihilation); to destroy en masse. (Compare genocide.)
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