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mass murder
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mass murder
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mass killing |
| Synonyms: | Roman holiday, bloodbath, butchering, carnage, ethnic cleansing, extermination, final solution, genocide, holocaust, mass destruction, mass execution, mass extermination, massacre, race extermination, race-murder, slaughter, wholesale murder |
| 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: | holocaust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | widespread destruction |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, carnage, catastrophe, devastation, extermination, extinction, genocide, immolation, inferno, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
| Main Entry: | massacre |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kill, often in great numbers |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, butcher, decimate, depopulate, exterminate, mass murder, murder, slaughter, slay |
| Antonyms: | create, give birth |
| Main Entry: | ethnic cleansing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mass killing of an ethnic group |
| Synonyms: | Roman holiday, final solution, genocide, holocaust, mass destruction, mass extermination, mass murder, pogrom, race extermination, race murder, ruthless clearance of populace, wholesale murder |
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