genocide
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əˌsaɪd noun
the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
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genocide (ˈdʒɛnəʊˌsaɪd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| the policy of deliberately killing a nationality or ethnic group | |
| [C20: from geno-, from Greek genos race + | |
| geno'cidal | |
| —adj | |
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Genocide
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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genocide
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genocide [(jen-uh-seyed)]The deliberate destruction of an entire race or nation. The Holocaust conducted by the Nazis in Germany and the Rwandan genocide are examples of attempts at genocide.
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Example sentences from the web
It is sometimes used interchangeably with the more connotatively severe term genocide.
Such acts could also fall within the meaning of the genocide convention.
This provocative outcry of genocide was voiced only decades later.
He has also been vocal in speaking out against the genocide occurring in darfur.
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