genocide
noun
[ ˈdʒɛnəsʌɪd ]
• the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
• "a campaign of genocide"
Similar:
racial killing,
massacre,
wholesale slaughter,
mass slaughter,
wholesale killing,
indiscriminate killing,
mass murder,
mass homicide,
mass destruction,
annihilation,
extermination,
elimination,
liquidation,
eradication,
decimation,
butchery,
bloodbath,
bloodletting,
pogrom,
ethnic cleansing,
holocaust,
Shoah,
slaying,
battue,
hecatomb,
Origin:
1940s: from Greek genos ‘race’ + -cide.
