genocide

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: gen=o=cide

CIDE DICTIONARY

genocide, n. 

 The systematic killing of a racial or cultural group; as, the Nazi genocide of Jews left few in Germany or Poland after World War II.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

genocide, n. the deliberate extermination of a people or nation.

Derivative

genocidal adj.

Etymology

Gk genos race + -CIDE

THESAURUS

genocide

aborticide, atrocity, bloodbath, breach, carnage, crime, crime against humanity, deadly sin, decimation, delinquency, dereliction, enormity, error, evil, failure, fault, felony, final solution, fratricide, fungicide, germicide, guilty act, heavy sin, herbicide, holocaust, homicide, impropriety, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, infanticide, iniquity, injury, injustice, insecticide, lapse, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, mass destruction, mass murder, massacre, matricide, microbicide, minor wrong, misdeed, misdemeanor, misfeasance, mortal sin, nonfeasance, offense, omission, outrage, parricide, patricide, peccadillo, peccancy, pesticide, pogrom, race extermination, race-murder, regicide, rodenticide, saturnalia of blood, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slip, sororicide, suicide, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, unutterable sin, uxoricide, venial sin, vermicide, wholesale murder, wrong