holocaust
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noun- 1.
(religion) An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes.
- 2.
(also, broadly, figuratively)A complete or large offering or sacrifice.
Đồng nghĩa: hecatomb
- 3.
(broadly)Complete destruction by fire; also, the thing so destroyed.
- 4.
(broadly, figuratively)Extensive destruction of a group of animals or (especially) people; a large-scale massacre or slaughter.
a nuclear holocaust
- 5.
(alt of, broadly, figuratively)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.
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verb- 1.
(also, figuratively, transitive)(religion, also figuratively) To sacrifice (chiefly an animal) to be completely burned.
- 2.
(transitive)To destroy (something) completely, especially by fire.
- 3.
(transitive)To subject (a group of people) to a holocaust (mass annihilation); to destroy en masse.
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thumb|An illustration by Gerard HoetFrom. of Noah making a holocaust ([[burnt offering; noun sense 1) to God: see Genesis 8:20 in the Bible.]]