Genocide

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  genocide \gen"o*cide\ n.
     The systematic killing of a racial or cultural group; as, the
     Nazi genocide of Jews left few in Germany or Poland after
     World War II.
  
     Syn: race murder, racial extermination.


          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  genocide
       n : systematic killing of a racial or cultural group [syn: {race
           murder}, {racial extermination}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "genocide":
     aborticide, atrocity, bloodbath, breach, carnage, crime,
     crime against humanity, deadly sin, decimation, delinquency,
     dereliction, enormity, error, evil, failure, fault, felony,
     final solution, fratricide, fungicide, germicide, guilty act,
     heavy sin, herbicide, holocaust, homicide, impropriety,
     indiscretion, inexpiable sin, infanticide, iniquity, injury,
     injustice, insecticide, lapse, malefaction, malfeasance, malum,
     mass destruction, mass murder, massacre, matricide, microbicide,
     minor wrong, misdeed, misdemeanor, misfeasance, mortal sin,
     nonfeasance, offense, omission, outrage, parricide, patricide,
     peccadillo, peccancy, pesticide, pogrom, race extermination,
     race-murder, regicide, rodenticide, saturnalia of blood, sin,
     sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slip, sororicide,
     suicide, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, unutterable sin,
     uxoricide, venial sin, vermicide, wholesale murder, wrong