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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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