Genocide

Quick meaning: Genocide is a noun meaning (by extension) The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.

Meaning

(by extension) The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.

More Meanings

1. (video games) The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player in roguelikes.
2. (transitive) To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.
3. 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.

Example Sentences

linguistic genocide

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

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

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

Word Forms

• genocides
• genociding
• genocided

Synonyms for genocide

Depending on context, synonyms include genticide.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include massacre, extermination, annihilation, extinction, eradication, carnage.

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