GENOCIDE


Meaning of GENOCIDE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

commit genocide (= the crime of attempting to kill a race of people )

In some countries, genocide is being committed every day.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

In recent history, the existence of prejudice has led to violence and genocide .

Several of the military leaders have been accused of genocide .

What is going on is not just war, it is genocide .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Answer to above: from Mark Fritz Sure, I think organized population transfers make sense, if the alternative is genocide .

Similar arguments have been used by white men to justify slavery and genocide of native peoples.

The fugitives, two of whom have been recaptured, are accused of genocide , mass murder and other crimes.

The only word that applies is genocide .

There is, after all, a long history of wife-beating and of genocide , but that does not make them excusable.

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