holocaust 音标拼音: [h'ɑlək
, ɔst]
n . 烧全兽的祭
烧全兽的祭
holocaust n 1 :
an act of mass destruction and loss of life (
especially in war or by fire ); "
a nuclear holocaust "
2 :
the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945 [
synonym : {
Holocaust }, {
final solution }]
Holocaust \
Hol "
o *
caust \,
n . [
L .
holocaustum ,
Gr . ?,
neut .
of ?,
?,
burnt whole ; "
o '
los whole kaysto `
s burnt ,
fr .
kai `
ein to burn (
cf . {
Caustic }):
cf .
F .
holocauste .]
1 .
A burnt sacrifice ;
an offering ,
the whole of which was consumed by fire ,
among the Jews and some pagan nations .
--
Milton .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Sacrifice or loss of many lives ,
as by the burning of a theater or a ship .
Note : [
An extended use not authorized by careful writers .]
[
1913 Webster ]
3 .
Specifically :
The mass killing of millions of Jews by the Nazis during the period from 1933 to 1945 in Germany and German -
occupied lands ;
usually referred to as {
The Holocaust }.
In Hebrew ,
the same event is referred to by the word {
Shoah }.
[
PJC ]
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "
holocaust ":
annihilation ,
bloodbath ,
blue ruin ,
breakup ,
burnt offering ,
butchery ,
carnage ,
clawing ,
collection ,
conflagration ,
consumption ,
cruciation ,
crucifixion ,
damnation ,
decimation ,
depredation ,
desolation ,
despoilment ,
despoliation ,
destruction ,
devastation ,
disintegration ,
disorganization ,
disruption ,
dissolution ,
drink offering ,
elimination ,
eradication ,
ex voto offering ,
extermination ,
extinction ,
final solution ,
fire ,
genocide ,
havoc ,
heave offering ,
hecatomb ,
hell ,
hell upon earth ,
horror ,
human sacrifice ,
immolation ,
incense ,
infanticide ,
inferno ,
laceration ,
lancination ,
libation ,
mactation ,
martyrdom ,
mass destruction ,
mass murder ,
massacre ,
nightmare ,
oblation ,
offering ,
offertory ,
passion ,
peace offering ,
perdition ,
persecution ,
piacular offering ,
pogrom ,
purgatory ,
race extermination ,
race -
murder ,
rack ,
ravage ,
ruin ,
ruination ,
sacramental offering ,
sacrifice ,
saturnalia of blood ,
scapegoat ,
self -
immolation ,
self -
sacrifice ,
shambles ,
slaughter ,
spoliation ,
suttee ,
sutteeism ,
thank offering ,
torment ,
torture ,
undoing ,
vandalism ,
votive offering ,
waste ,
whole offering ,
wholesale murder ,
wrack ,
wrack and ruin ,
wreck
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