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HOLOCAUST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire)
Example:
a nuclear holocaust
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("holocaust" is a kind of...):
destruction; devastation (the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945
Synonyms:
final solution; Holocaust
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
genocide; race murder; racial extermination (systematic killing of a racial or cultural group)
