| 单词 | genocide |
| 释义 | genocide (once / 5026 pages) n Genocide refers to the systematic destruction of a race or cultural group. In the Rwandan genocide of 1994, members of one ethnic group, the Hutus, killed some 850,000 Tutsis in an attempt to wipe them out completely. Genocide was coined in 1944 by a Polish-Jewish scholar named Raphael Lemkin in response to the Holocaust. In 1948, the United Nations defined genocide as any of several acts (including murder) "committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group..." WORD FAMILYgenocide: genocides USAGE EXAMPLESThe name of Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Egyptian diplomat who led the United Nations, led to replayed nightmares of genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) Decades after World War II, the U.S. established the Holocaust Memorial Museum presumably to warn against genocides like the mass murder of European Jewry. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) Tens of thousands of Namibians were killed in what historians call the 20th century’s first genocide. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) n systematic killing of a racial or cultural group Syn|Exp|Hyper race murder, racial extermination final solution the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945 kill, killing, putting to death the act of terminating a life |
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