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