Genocide

/ˈd͡ʒɛnəsaɪd/ · noun

Meaning

The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people; typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, nationality, or similar grounds..

Definitions by Sense

1. The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people; typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, nationality, or similar grounds.
2. (by extension) The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.
3. (video games) The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player in roguelikes.
4. (transitive) To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.

Example Sentences

A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened.

For the German occupying authorities war thus appears to offer the most appropriate occasion for carrying out their policy of genocide.

Shaddam IV: I want fifty legion of Sardaukar on Arrakis at once! Subordinate: Fifty legions? That's our entire reserves as well. Shaddam IV: This is genocide: the deliberate and systematic destruction of all life on Arrakis!

Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.

Incorporating a global-comparative perspective on the genocides of the last half millennium has enabled important advances in the understanding of events central to the genocide studies field – such as the process of Ottoman imperial dissolution, reciprocal genocidal killing (during the “Unweaving” in the Balkans), and complex international jockeying that factored into the massive anti-Christian slaughters in Anatolia in 1915 and thereafter.

A genocide denier is an apologist for the next genocide. […] Mr. Handke is the Bob Dylan of genocide apologists.

linguistic genocide

Native Americans in the twentieth century are no longer a "vanishing race" or a silent minority. They have survived centuries of cultural genocide inflicted on them by non-Native Americans— both the well-meaning and the self-seeking— […]

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• genocides
• genociding
• genocided

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