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Causative of or related to an act or policy of genocide.
An ethnic civil war triggered the genocidal massacre of more than 500000 people in just a few short months. Hundreds of thousands of Rwandans fled...
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genocidal — gen o*cid al a. Of or pertaining to genocide; as, the genocidal policies of the Serbs in Bosnia. [PJC] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
genocidal — 1948, from GENOCIDE (Cf. genocide) + AL (Cf. al) (1). Related: Genocidally … Etymology dictionary
genocidal — [[t]ʤe̱nəsa͟ɪd(ə)l[/t]] ADJ: usu ADJ n Genocidal means relating to genocide or carrying out genocide. They have been accused of genocidal crimes … English dictionary
genocidal — |jenə|sīdəl adjective Etymology: genocide + al : tending toward or producing genocide genocidal acts the degradation of anthropology to a genocidal weapon by the Nazis Scientific Monthly … Useful english dictionary
genocidal — adj. Genocidal is used with these nouns: ↑maniac, ↑massacre … Collocations dictionary
genocidal — genocide ► NOUN ▪ the deliberate killing of a very large number of people from a particular ethnic group or nation. DERIVATIVES genocidal adjective. ORIGIN from Greek genos race + CIDE(Cf. ↑ cide) … English terms dictionary
Genocidal massacre — The term Genocidal Massacre, was introduced by Professor Leo Kuper (1908 1994) to denote breaches of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which are committed on a relatively smaller scale when… … Wikipedia
genocidal — adjective see genocide … New Collegiate Dictionary
genocidal — See genocide. * * * … Universalium
genocidal — adj. of genocide, pertaining to the extermination of a large group of people (particularly those belonging to a certain race, religion, etc.) … English contemporary dictionary
