genocide

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n. 种族灭绝, 灭绝整个种族的大屠杀 [医] 种族灭绝(侵略军队加害居民的罪行)

发音

其它 /ˈd͡ʒɛnəsaɪd/

词形变化

genocides 复数 genocides genocided genocides 三单 genociding genociding 现在分词 genocided 过去式 genocided 过去分词

释义与例句

n. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people; typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality.

    可数 不可数

    A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened.

    For the German occupying authorities war thus appears to offer the most appropriate occasion for carrying out their policy of genocide.

  2. 2.

    The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on other grounds.

    种族灭绝

    可数 不可数 引申义
  3. 3.

    The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.

    可数 不可数 引申义
  4. 4.

    The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player.

    可数 不可数 游戏
v.
  1. 1.

    To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.

    及物

    Even though the Soviet constitution and that of the Ukrainian SSR contain provisions guaranteeing freedom of religion and other fundamental liberties, the Soviet government genocided the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the 1930's …

词汇关系

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上位词 2

kill killing

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词源

Coined by Polish Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1943 or 1944 in reference to the Armenian Genocide (then known by other names; see: Terminology of the Armenian genocide), massacres of Assyrians (such as the Simele massacre and Seyfo) and the Jewish Holocaust. From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) (cognate with Latin gēns (“tribe, clan”), whence genus), corresponding to geno- + -cide (“killing, killer”). Piecewise doublet of gendercide. Compare genticide.

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