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GENOCIDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
Synonyms:
genocide; race murder; racial extermination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("genocide" is a kind of...):
kill; killing; putting to death (the act of terminating a life)
Instance hyponyms:
final solution; Holocaust (the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945)