noun🔗ShareHolocaustoA 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. "En la antigüedad, la gente a veces ofrecía un animal como holocausto a los dioses, quemándolo por completo hasta que no quedaba más que cenizas.religionritualdisasterhistorysufferingwarChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareHolocausto, destrucciónExtensive 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"10 de septiembre de 1895, "OTRO HOLOCAUSTO ARMENIO; Cinco aldeas quemadas, cinco mil personas sin hogar y anticristianos organizados."disasterhistorywarinhumansufferingeventChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareHolocausto, genocidioIn 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. "La Segunda Guerra Mundial fue testigo de los horrores del Holocausto, durante el cual millones de judíos fueron asesinados sistemáticamente por el régimen nazi.historywarpoliticsinhumangroupstatedisastersufferingeventChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareSacrificar y quemar por completoTo 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. "En la antigüedad, algunas culturas sacrificaban y quemaban por completo un toro como ofrenda a sus dioses, quemándolo por completo en un altar.ritualanimalreligionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareDestruir por completo, arrasarTo destroy completely, especially by fire."The wildfire threatened to holocaust the entire forest, leaving nothing but ashes. "El incendio forestal amenazaba con arrasar todo el bosque, sin dejar más que cenizas.disasterworldwareventhistoryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareAniquilar, destruir en masa(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. "El incendio forestal amenazaba con aniquilar todo el bosque, sin dejar nada más que cenizas.disasterwarhistoryinhumansufferingactiongovernmentsocietypoliticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
