genocide

Pluralgenocides

Formsgenocides, genociding, genocided

1. 1
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The planned killing or destruction of a large group of people because of their race, religion, or nationality.

   The court found that the massacres amounted to genocide under international law.

   Survivors of the genocide testified about the loss of their entire villages.

   Similarextermination, annihilation, massacre, slaughter, holocaust

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2. 2
   noununcountable

   The planned killing of large numbers of people for reasons other than their race or religion.

   Some scholars argue the mass killing of a political class also counts as genocide.

   The regime's slaughter of an entire social group has been called genocide by its critics.

   Similarextermination, massacre, slaughter

3. 3
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The planned wiping out of a people's culture, language, or customs because of where they come from.

   Forcing children to abandon their language and customs is a genocide aimed at a culture rather than its people.

   Activists called the destruction of sacred sites and the banning of customs a slow genocide.

   Similarethnocide, culturicide

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4. 4
   verbtransitive

   To completely destroy or wipe out a whole group of people on purpose.

   The invaders tried to genocide every member of the rival tribe.

   Extremists openly threatened to genocide an entire religious community.

   Similarexterminate, annihilate, massacre, slaughter

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5. 5
   nouncountable or uncountable

   In some computer games, the killing of every monster of one kind by the player.

   Like wiping every piece of one color off a game board at once.

   He used a scroll of genocide to clear every dragon from the dungeon.

   Players sometimes save genocide for the most dangerous enemy type.

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