Policide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Policide is a noun meaning The intentional destruction of a nation.
Meaning
The intentional destruction of a nation.
More Meanings
- The intentional destruction of political activity in a society.
Example Sentences
In Chile the project of policide—annihilating the Left and more broadly, Center and Left cultural understandings of politics as a process of popular mobilization, via massive killing and abduction of real and alleged Left activists, complemented by additional layers of persecution and fright heaped on dissidents of any political stripe—yielded issues of comprehensibility and representation similar to those in classic cases of genocide.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include humanicide, urbicide, planetcide, populicide, religicide, memorycide.
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