Defenition of the word holocaust
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Defenition of the word holocaust
- A sacrifice to a god where the offering is completely burned to ashes.
- an act of great destruction and loss of life
- the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler
- an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire)
- the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945
Hypernyms for the word holocaust
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- destruction
- devastation
- genocide
- race murder
- racial extermination
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