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genocide

/ˈd͡ʒɛnəsaɪd/ noun C1
  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, nationality, or similar grounds. (countable, uncountable) · A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened.
  2. The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide. (countable, uncountable) · linguistic genocide
  3. The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player in roguelikes. (countable, uncountable)

Plural genocides

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