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[hol-uh-kawst, hoh-luh-] 
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| Main Entry: |
holocaust
[hol-uh-kawst, hoh-luh-]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | widespread destruction |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, carnage, catastrophe, devastation, extermination, extinction, genocide, immolation, inferno, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
| Main Entry: | blaze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fire |
| Synonyms: | bonfire, burning, combustion, conflagration, flame, flames, holocaust, wildfire |
| Main Entry: | carnage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | massacre |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, blitz, blood, blood and guts, blood bath, bloodshed, butchering, butchery, crime, extermination, gore, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, homicide, killing, liquidation, manslaughter, mass murder, murder, offing, rapine, search and destroy, shambles, slaughter, slaying, taking out, warfare, wasting |
| Main Entry: | conflagration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large fire |
| Synonyms: | blaze, bonfire, burning, flaming, holocaust, inferno, rapid oxidation, up in smoke, wildfire |
| Main Entry: | disaster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accident, trouble |
| Synonyms: | act of God, adversity, affliction, bad luck, bad news, bale, bane, blight, blow, bust, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collapse, collision, crash, debacle, defeat, depression, emergency, exigency, failure, fall, fell stroke, fiasco, flood, flop, grief, hard luck, harm, hazard, holocaust, hot water, ill luck, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, reverse, rock, rough, ruin, ruination, setback, slip, stroke, the worst, tragedy, undoing, upset, washout, woe |
| Antonyms: | blessing, good fortune, good luck, miracle, prosperity, success, triumph, win, wonder |
| Main Entry: | fire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burning |
| Synonyms: | blaze, bonfire, campfire, charring, coals, combustion, conflagration, devouring, element, embers, flame and smoke, flames, flare, glow, hearth, heat, holocaust, hot spot, incandescence, inferno, luminosity, oxidation, phlogiston, pyre, rapid oxidation, scintillation, scorching, sea of flames, searing, sparks, tinder, up in smoke, warmth |
| Main Entry: | flame |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fire |
| Synonyms: | blaze, brightness, conflagration, flare, flash, holocaust, light, rapid oxidation, wildfire |
| Main Entry: | genocide |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mass extermination |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, carnage, decimation, ethnic cleansing, holocaust, mass execution, mass murder, massacre, race extermination, slaughter |
| Main Entry: | end of the world |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | destruction of civilization |
| Synonyms: | Armageddon, apocalypse, catastrophe, final battle, final battleground, holocaust, showdown between good and evil, total annihilation |
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