'genocide' definitions:
Definition of 'genocide'
(from WordNet)
noun
Systematic killing of a racial or cultural group [syn: genocide, race murder, racial extermination]
Definition of 'genocide'
From: GCIDE
- genocide \gen"o*cide\ n. The systematic killing of a racial or cultural group; as, the Nazi genocide of Jews left few in Germany or Poland after World War II.
- Syn: race murder, racial extermination. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'genocide'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aborticide,
- atrocity,
- bloodbath,
- breach,
- carnage,
- crime,
- crime against humanity,
- deadly sin,
- decimation,
- delinquency,
- dereliction,
- enormity,
- error,
- evil,
- failure,
- fault,
- felony,
- final solution,
- fratricide,
- fungicide,
- germicide,
- guilty act,
- heavy sin,
- herbicide,
- holocaust,
- homicide,
- impropriety,
- indiscretion,
- inexpiable sin,
- infanticide,
- iniquity,
- injury,
- injustice,
- insecticide,
- lapse,
- malefaction,
- malfeasance,
- malum,
- mass destruction,
- mass murder,
- massacre,
- matricide,
- microbicide,
- minor wrong,
- misdeed,
- misdemeanor,
- misfeasance,
- mortal sin,
- nonfeasance,
- offense,
- omission,
- outrage,
- parricide,
- patricide,
- peccadillo,
- peccancy,
- pesticide,
- pogrom,
- race extermination,
- race-murder,
- regicide,
- rodenticide,
- saturnalia of blood,
- sin,
- sin of commission,
- sin of omission,
- sinful act,
- slip,
- sororicide,
- suicide,
- tort,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- trip,
- unutterable sin,
- uxoricide,
- venial sin,
- vermicide,
- wholesale murder,
- wrong