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Systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
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genocide
Word definitions for genocide in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Genocide is a 1981 documentary by Arnold Schwartzman concerning the Holocaust . It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1944, apparently coined by Polish-born U.S. jurist Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) in his work "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe" [p.19], in reference to Nazi extermination of Jews, literally "killing a tribe," from Greek genos "race, kind" (see genus ) + -cide ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, social status, or other particularities. vb. To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. systematic killing of a racial or cultural group [syn: race murder , racial extermination ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES commit genocide (= the crime of attempting to kill a race of people ) ▪ In some countries, genocide is being committed every day. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ In recent history, the existence of prejudice has led to ...
Usage examples of genocide.
His elders would have let the Imperials destroy the Bafforr forests of Cathor Hills, trusting that some shred of de cency left in Alima would make him stop short of genocide against an entire species.
After Hitler, war was commonplace, genocide routine, nuclear weapons valued for the megadeaths they could generate.
Garissa genocide, when Omuta launched a series of antimatter planetbusters at Garissa.
Dorados by the Confederation Assembly as part of their restitutions against Omuta for the genocide.
The last such sitting had determined, in absentia, Omuta to be guilty of genocide, and ordered the execution of its cabinet and military high command.
For all they knew, the parasites meant genocide for the Bajoran people.
Atlantis by the Rock in 2374 and the following years of genocide of the remaining Pisces, Knowler remained active and visible in world politics.
Stalin held his monstrous Soviet show trials, committed genocide against the kulaks, and created a forced famine for the Ukrainians when they resisted collectivization.
Both men and Basics are guilty of a racial crime that goes genocide one better.
This was a parabolic curve unaffected in its course by such historical disturbances and shocks as invasions, plagues, and genocides, because technology, once it gained momentum, became a variable independent of the civilizational substructure.
Examples: getting state aid for having a child, escaping a dysfunctional family of origin by getting pregnant, trying to find someone to love by having a baby, knowing a happily married teenager but knowing little about the difficult experiences of an unwanted pregnancy, believing birth control is racial genocide, assuming that all a woman can do is raise babies, assuming your buddies can tell you everything you need to know about sex and contraception, having intercourse for months before going to a birth control clinic, being unable to talk with our partner about sex and birth control, having little interaction with our parents about sex, assuming wrongly that you aren't going to have sex so there is no need to prepare, having low self-esteem and low self-control, overlooking the pleasures and gratitude of your partner when you use contraceptives, etc.
Fielder: For my closing remarks, which I promise you will be kept as brief as humanly possible, given the pronounced oratorical bias of your speaker and chairman, I'd like simply to say that this has been a most dynamic round table, surely for me a most instructive one as well, as it was I believe for all of us gathered here, although each no doubt has his or her own idea of levels of merit, remembering our own Turner Bakey and his oft-quoted rejoinder to Ed-dings' paraphrase of Larue during the Arts-Leadership Committee's brunch on genocide.
There are no monstrous blitzkriegs, no inhuman genocide to stir the passion of opposition.
Wars, genocide, so-called ethnic cleansings seem to be happening everywhere.
Because, even though THL had in the sudden great showdown toppled the combined probe constellated out of the resources of its two immense opponents, the citizens of Terra had already been briefed fully, had already been exposed systematically to the entire truth—and nothing, short of planet-wide genocide, could reverse that.