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1.nounA sacrifice that is completely burned to ashes.
2.nounExtensive destruction of a group (usually of people or animals), whether by deliberate agency or by natural agency (especially fire)."1895 September 10, "ANOTHER ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST; Five Villages Burned, Five Thousand Persons Made Homeless, and Anti-Christians Organized.", in The New York Times"
3.nounIn particular, a state-sponsored mass murder of an ethnic group, especially the Holocaust (which see).
4.verbTo sacrifice and burn (an animal) completely.
5.verbTo destroy completely, especially by fire.
6.verb(possibly nonstandard) To subject to a holocaust (mass annihilation); to destroy en masse. (Compare genocide.)