Sanakirja
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Synonyymit
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Substantiivi
- (religion) An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes.
- (religion, also, figuratively) A complete or large offering or sacrifice.
- Complete destruction by fire; also, the thing so destroyed.
- Extensive destruction of a group of animals or (especially) people; a large-scale massacre or slaughter.
- Alternative letter-case form of Holocaust (“the systematic mass murder (democide or genocide) of Jews (and, more broadly, of disabled people, homosexuals, Romanis, Slavs, and others) perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II”); hence, the state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society.
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- And to love a mans nehbour as hymsilfe, ys a greater thynge then all holocaustes and sacrifises.
- in the holocaust or burnt-offering of Moses, the gall was cast away: for, as Ben Maimon instructeth, the inwards, whereto the gall adhereth, were taken out with the crop (according unto the law,) which the priest did not burn, but cast unto the east [...].
- nuclear holocaust
- a nuclear holocaust
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | holocausts |
Luokat
(religion) An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes.
The Altar of Incense, Altar of Burnt-Offering, and Laver from the biblical Tabernacle; illustration from the 1890 Holman Bible
(religion, also, figuratively) To sacrifice (chiefly an animal) to be completely burned.
Sacrifice of a pig to Demeter (tondo from an Attic red-figure kylix, ca. 510–500 BC
To destroy (something) completely, especially by fire.
View of the old synagogue in Aachen after its destruction during Kristallnacht
To subject (a group of people) to a holocaust (mass annihilation); to destroy en masse.
At least 3,000 Jews were killed during the 1941 Lviv pogroms, mainly by local Ukrainians.
Extensive destruction of a group of animals or (especially) people; a large-scale massacre or slaughter.
Jews arriving at Auschwitz II in German-occupied Poland, May 1944. Most were selected for execution in gas chambers.
Alternative letter-case form of Holocaust (“the systematic mass murder (democide or genocide) of Jews (and, more broadly, of disabled people, homosexuals, Romanis, Slavs, and others) perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II”); hence, the state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society.
Public execution of Masha Bruskina, a Belarusian Jew who helped Soviet prisoners escape