genocide
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3(noun.)
ADJ
mass
The international community condemned the mass genocide that occurred in the region during the 1990s.
cultural
PREP
~ against
The international community condemned the genocide against the Rwandan Tutsi population in 1994.
Definitions
noun
The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people; typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality.
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.
The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on other grounds.
The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.
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— […]
The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player.
I used genocide in my first ascension, but have been genocideless ever since. Makes the game much more interesting, but then again, if one hasn't ascended yet, it will be interesting anyway.
What an Extinctionist tries to do is completely eliminate as many kinds of monsters from the game as possible, either through genocide if it's available, or from just depleting all the kinds of monsters that can be produced.
verb
To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.
Even though the Soviet constitution and that of the Ukrainian SSR contain provisions guaranteeing freedom of religion and other fundamental liberties, the Soviet government genocided the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the 1930's …
A clue appears in the Nazis finding the Gypsies dirty and disorderly (for not only Jews were genocided).
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6A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened.
WiktionaryFor the German occupying authorities war thus appears to offer the most appropriate occasion for carrying out their policy of genocide.
WiktionaryShaddam 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
WiktionaryEven though the Soviet constitution and that of the Ukrainian SSR contain provisions guaranteeing freedom of religion and other fundamental liberties, the Soviet government genocided the Ukrainian Aut
WiktionaryA clue appears in the Nazis finding the Gypsies dirty and disorderly (for not only Jews were genocided).
WiktionaryYou just know it makes much more sense to encourage brutal governments to buy our WMD technology than to get them to put food in the empty bellies of their people or quit genociding the populace.
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