holocaust
holo·caust (hä′lə käst′; hō′lə kôst′, hô′-)
noun
- an offering the whole of which is burned; burnt offering
- great or total destruction of life, esp. by fire nuclear holocaust
Etymology: ME < OFr holocauste < LL(Ec) holocaustum, a whole burnt offering < Gr holokauston (neut. of holokaustos), burnt whole < holos, whole (see holo-) + kaustos, burnt: see caustic
the Holocaust
☆the systematic, genocidal destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII
Converse of object
- deny: Irving was formally charged in an Austrian court, November 22, with " denying the holocaust.
- survive: They survived a veritable holocaust of German artillery fire from 3 sides of the Wood.
- call: You can't really call the holocaust the hoax of the twentieth century then expect an easy ride into the political mainstream.
- create: The less people who encourage plan and create holocausts the better!
- follow: Again we have a medieval landscape from which science has withdrawn, following a nuclear holocaust which has left humanity genetically damaged.
- perpetrate: French president Mitterand's son was chief arms salesman to the Hutu government of Rwanda that perpetrated this holocaust.
Adjective modifier
- Nazi: Finally, I emphatically believe that the Nazi holocaust should be studied.
- nuclear: The ghastly prospect of nuclear holocaust looms larger every year.
- atomic: An atomic holocaust can begin which will destroy a lot.
- silent: WaterAid chief executive Barbara Frost said: " There is a silent holocaust occurring around the world caused by lack of water and sanitation.
- Victorian: Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World.
Modifies a noun
- denier: Irving is accused of being a holocaust denier " .
- denial: Holocaust denial per se is not an offense in the United Kingdom.
- survivor: I met a holocaust survivor who now protests against Zionism.
- memorial: The Wiener Library is the world's oldest Holocaust memorial institution, tracing its history back to 1933.
- victim: One must wonder why one particular minority has been excluded from the list of holocaust victims.
Noun used with modifier
There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping silent.When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it, orevensuspectedanything Whoeverrefuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
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