noun🔗ShareA sacrifice that is completely burned to ashes."In ancient times, people sometimes offered an animal as a holocaust to the gods, burning it completely until nothing but ashes remained. "religionritualdisasterhistorysufferingwarChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareExtensive destruction of a group (usually of people or animals), whether by deliberate agency or by natural agency (especially fire)."1895 September 10, "ANOTHER ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST; Five Villages Burned, Five Thousand Persons Made Homeless, and Anti-Christians Organized.", in The New York Times"disasterhistorywarinhumansufferingeventChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareIn particular, a state-sponsored mass murder of an ethnic group, especially the Holocaust (which see)."World War II saw the horrors of the Holocaust, during which millions of Jews were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime. "historywarpoliticsinhumangroupstatedisastersufferingeventChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo sacrifice and burn (an animal) completely."In ancient times, some cultures would holocaust a bull as an offering to their gods, burning it entirely on an altar. "ritualanimalreligionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo destroy completely, especially by fire."The wildfire threatened to holocaust the entire forest, leaving nothing but ashes. "disasterworldwareventhistoryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share(possibly nonstandard) To subject to a holocaust (mass annihilation); to destroy en masse. (Compare genocide.)"The wildfire threatened to holocaust the entire forest, leaving nothing but ashes behind. "disasterwarhistoryinhumansufferingactiongovernmentsocietypoliticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
