EGAVE

holocaust

About 4.52 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. noun A complete or large offering or sacrifice.
    a nuclear holocaust
  3. noun A complete or large offering or sacrifice.
  4. noun Complete destruction by fire; also, the thing so destroyed.
  5. noun Extensive destruction of a group of animals or people; a large-scale massacre or slaughter.
    a nuclear holocaust
  6. noun Extensive destruction of a group of animals or people; a large-scale massacre or slaughter.
    a nuclear holocaust
  7. noun Alternative letter-case form of Holocaust (“the systematic mass murder (democide or genocide) of Jews (and, more broadly, of disabled people, homosexuals, Romanis, Slavs, and others) perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II”); hence, the state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society.
  8. verb To sacrifice (chiefly an animal) to be completely burned.

Similar words

shoah offering marge genocide disaster catastrophe massacre extermination calamity annihilation

Often followed by

and in survivors of memorial is was as survivor

Word family

Holocaust holocausts the Holocaust

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