genocide
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛnəsaɪd/
genocide
- The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, social status, or other particularities.
- 1944, November, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, "Analysis of Government - Proposals for Redress", chapter 9, page 79
- For the German occupying authorities war thus appears to offer the most appropriate occasion for carrying out their policy of genocide.
- A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened.
- 1944, November, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, "Analysis of Government - Proposals for Redress", chapter 9, page 79
- (by extension) The systematic suppression of ideas on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.
- (video games, roguelikes) The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player.
- 2000, "Kimmo Kasila", Arch lich at Minetown bones, Help! (on newsgroup rec.games.roguelike.nethack)
- 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.
- 2000, "Kimmo Kasila", Arch lich at Minetown bones, Help! (on newsgroup rec.games.roguelike.nethack)
- (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) genticide
- French: génocide
- German: Völkermord, Genozid
- Italian: genocidio
- Portuguese: genocídio
- Russian: геноци́д
- Spanish: genocidio
genocide (genocides, present participle genociding; past and past participle genocided)
- (transitive) To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.
- 1986, Oversight of the Board for International Broadcasting: hearing before the Subcommittee on International Operations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs ↗, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, second session, June 17, 1986, volume 4, page 145:
- 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 [...]
- 2006, Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em!: Genocide, Terrorism, Righteous Communities ↗, page 8:
- A clue appears in the Nazis finding the Gypsies dirty and disorderly (for not only Jews were genocided).
- 2007, War on Truth: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Invasion of Iraq ↗ page 66:
- You 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.
- 2016, Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social, and Military Encyclopedia ↗, page 1193:
- It is unlikely that Sulla succeeded in genociding the Samnites, since their mountains offered many refuges, but in subsequent centuries the Samnites disappeared, being absorbed into the general population of Italy.
- 1986, Oversight of the Board for International Broadcasting: hearing before the Subcommittee on International Operations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs ↗, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, second session, June 17, 1986, volume 4, page 145:
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