GENOCIDE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Systematic killing of a racial or cultural group

Synonyms:

genocide; race murder; racial extermination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("genocide" is a kind of...):

kill; killing; putting to death (the act of terminating a life)

Instance hyponyms:

final solution; Holocaust (the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945)

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