An act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire).

Roget 361: killing etc. v.; homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation^†, iccusion^†; effusion of blood; blood, blood shed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery; battue^†.    massacre; fusillade, noyade^†; thuggery, Thuggism^†.    deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus; execution etc. (capital punishment) 972; judicial murder; martyrdom.    butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur^†; guet-a-pens; gallows, executioner etc. (punishment) 975; man-eater, apache^†, hatchet man [U.S.], highbinder [U.S.].    regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide^†, uxoricide^†, vaticide^†.    suicide, felo de se^†, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath^†; immolation, auto da fe, holocaust.    suffocation, strangulation, garrote; hanging etc. v.; lapidation^†.    deadly weapon etc. (arms) 727; Aceldama^†.    [Destruction of animals] slaughtering; phthisozoics^†; sport, sporting; the chase, venery; hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing; pig-sticking; sportsman, huntsman, fisherman; hunter, Nimrod; slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir.    fatal accident, violent death, casualty.    ... show more

Roget 991: idolatry, idolism^†; demonism^†, demonolatry^†; idol-worship, demon-worship, devil-worship, fire-worship; zoolatry, fetishism, fetichism; ecclesiolatry^†, heliolatry, Mariolatry, Bibliolatry^†.    deification, apotheosis, canonization; hero worship.    sacrifices, hecatomb, holocaust; human sacrifices, immolation, mactation^†, infanticide, self-immolation, suttee.    idol, golden calf, graven image, fetich, avatar, Juggernath^†, lares et penates [Lat.]; Baal etc. 986^†.    ... show more

Polish: zagłada, holokaust, Zagłada, Szoah, szoah, holocaust

The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945.

synonym: final solution.

Dutch: Sjoa, holocaust, Holocaust