Concept cluster: Society > Genocide
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(uncommon) The killing of an animal (also used historically and offensively for the killing a person who is regarded as subhuman).
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The death or murder of all humankind.
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Designed to kill animals.
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Alternative letter-case form of Armenian genocide [(historical) The systematic mass murder of around one million ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I (1915–1917).]
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(rare) The destruction of an ethnic culture by its own members.
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Alternative form of autogenocide [The extermination of a country's citizens by its own people or government.]
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(agriculture) Control of a pest through propagation of sterile males.
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Genocide of a particular group by members of that group.
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cestocide
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(rare, humorous) Serving to kill or waste time.
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The deliberate and systematic destruction of a social class.
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The destruction of planet Earth, especially as a result of human activity.
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culturicide
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Alternative form of culturicide. [(uncountable) The systematic destruction of a culture, particularly one unique to a specific ethnicity, or a political, religious, or social group.]
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Alternative form of culturicide. [(uncountable) The systematic destruction of a culture, particularly one unique to a specific ethnicity, or a political, religious, or social group.]
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Destroying a culture.
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(uncountable) The systematic destruction of a culture, particularly one unique to a specific ethnicity, or a political, religious, or social group.
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Killing or destroying a culture.
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The deliberate destruction of a culture.
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(Australia) A government license to kill or remove fauna that would otherwise be protected.
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Genocide that results from destroying a people's economic basis.
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Cultural vandalism.
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Alternative form of eliticide [The targeted killing of the leadership of a group (to cripple it), for example at the beginning of a genocide or during a revolution.]
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The mass expulsion or killing of people belonging to one ethnic group by those of another.
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The deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic group, accomplished either by destroying the members of the group (genocide) or by destroying its cultural identity (culturicide).
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With regard to genocide.
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The systematic and deliberate destruction of substantial numbers of people - typically by killing - on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality.
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One who commits genocide.
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A policy of committing genocide.
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The killing of a race or nation of people; the slaughter of an ethnic group; a genocide.
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Characterized by or committing geocide, the destruction of the earth or its ecosystems.
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The destruction of the earth, its ecosystems, or some part thereof, due to human activity.
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Alternative form of geronticide [The killing or euthanasia of the elderly]
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Alternative form of genocidaire. [A person involved in perpetrating a genocide, especially the 1994 Rwandan genocide.]
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The systematic or targeted destruction of the indigenous people(s) of a place, especially Australia.
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destruction, massacre
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the act of eating invasive species as a method of population control
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The death of a language, either naturally or from political causes.
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(Internet slang, ironic) Genocide of white people.
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An attempt to eradicate one or more ideas; for example eradication by book burning and censorship.
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The deliberate destruction of all traces and physical reminders of a people.
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The total extinction of the human species as a result of human action. Most commonly it refers to human extinction through nuclear warfare, but it can also refer to such extinction through other means such as global anthropogenic ecological catastrophe.
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The systematic destruction of people based upon their phenotype. cf genocide
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The act of killing all living creatures on a planet.
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The intentional destruction of a nation.
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The destruction of a religion.
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Synonym of roboticide
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The genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994.
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(rare) Destruction or debasement of scientific method, understanding, and/or infrastructure; a (figurative) killing of science.
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The destruction of a society.
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The elimination of an entire species.
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The systematic extermination of a species.
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Alternative form of speciecide [The systematic extermination of a species.]
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The destruction of a species.
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(rare) The destruction of technology.
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The destruction of a planet or of natural ecosystems.
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The destruction of ecosystems, human lives, and intangible energies that regulate human and nonhuman life.
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(countable, uncountable) Actions caused by humans which lead to the death of non-human animals, such as deforestation.
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Pertaining to or having the nature of urbicide, that being the deliberate “killing” of a city by the razing of distinctive physical manifestations of its urban identity, stifling of the social activity therein, and its general destruction as an edifice of civilisation.
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The destruction of a city or urban area.
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The destruction or elimination of a word.
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Alternative form of vicesimation [(rare) The destruction of one-twentieth of something; especially, the killing or putting to death of every twentieth person, especially by lot.]
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(US, colloquial) The intentional killing of an entire foreign (plant or animal) species.
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The systematic or targeted killing of animals.

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