genocide

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  1. noun The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.

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  • The language used does not refer to the term genocide, as favored by the victims, though it is certainly helping to erode the biggest taboo in Turkey, as the campaign initiator Baskin Oran puts it. —  Assyrian International News Agency
  • Rev. Hoye is an African-American pastor who says he feels a special calling to work for the end of what he calls the genocide by abortion taking place in the African-American community. —  LifeSiteNews.com Headlines
  • Russia said it was morally obliged to attack Georgia to prevent what it called a genocide in the rebel region. —  TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News
  • According to Deike Begg of the Association of Professional Astrologers International, "when one of the outer planets - Uranus, Neptune, Pluto - changes signs, there are disruptions on earth, and each year of the genocide was accompanied by such a shift." —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Congress to recognize the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces as a genocide, a term Turkey rejects. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
 

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  1. Greek genos, race; see genə- in Indo-European roots + -cide.
 

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