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The Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler
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holocaust
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Holocaust is a fictional character in the Milestone and DC Comics universes . Created as part of the Blood Syndicate for Milestone Media , the character has since gone on to become a gangster and supervillain.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., "sacrifice by fire, burnt offering," from Greek holokauston "a thing wholly burnt," neuter of holokaustos "burned whole," from holos "whole" (see holo- ) + kaustos , verbal adjective of kaiein "to burn." Originally a Bible word for "burnt offerings," ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES nuclear holocaust (= a nuclear war that destroys much of the Earth ) ▪ With the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the possibility of a nuclear holocaust was greatly reduced. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE nuclear ...
Usage examples of holocaust.
German populace is in the actions of enslavement and murder, beginning with the exclusionary legislation of the early thirties and culminating in the Holocaust.
Eschaton from rotisserie-league holocaust games played with protractors and PCs around kitchen tables.
One school of thought claims a world of grass and insects, another fantasizes about one that rapidly repopulates itself as if the atomic holocaust had never burned across the sky.
In a way, he was never of us, but only with us, he who was a Stoth priest even before the holocaust.
Buildings, forests, jungles were seared to ash by the holocaust, and in the midst of the inferno, she saw the uncomprehending dark eyes of a little child.
Who would not shudder at such a hapless holocaust, where ink is offered up instead of blood, where the glowing ashes of crackling parchment were encarnadined with blood, where the devouring flames consumed so many thousands of innocents in whose mouth was no guile, where the unsparing fire turned into stinking ashes so many shrines of eternal truth!
Yusef Shah, the Afridi chief, his three headmen and his American ally, and who had turned the friendly conference suddenly into a holocaust of murder.
However, to return in thought to the past, of which our present is the continuation: the old Biblical ideal of offering a holocaust to Yahweh by massacring every living thing in a captured town or city was but the Hebrew version of a custom general to the early Semites: the Moabites, the Amorites, the Assyrians, and all.
Biblical ideal of offering a holocaust to Yahweh by massacring every living thing in a captured town or city was but the Hebrew version of a custom general to the early Semites: the Moabites, the Amorites, the Assyrians, and all.
Then Braker had landed the ship, after escaping the holocaust that had shattered that before-the-asteroids world!
By the flaring holocaust light the toothed wheels, the soot-blackened timber cage of the raised grinders seemed more than ever some Dantean vision of torment.
His second fieldpiece soon-added its fire to the holocaust below, then the third.
Communications broke down during the holocaust and, without the modern fire jumpers and lookout advance warnings we have today, Hellmouth was doomed.
Confederation imposed a thirty-year sanction against Omuta for its part in the Garissan holocaust of 2581, prohibiting both trade and travel to the star system.
Heliopolis - Re-Harakhte, the Horizon-Sun - we saw silhouetted against its vermeil holocaust the black outlines of the Pyramids of Gizeh - the palaeogean tombs there were hoary with a thousand years when Tut-Ankh-Amen mounted his golden throne in distant Thebes.