Synonyms for genocide
ˈdʒɛn əˌsaɪdgeno·cide

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1. genocide, race murder, racial exterminationnoun

   systematic killing of a racial or cultural group

   Synonyms:
   racial extermination, race murder

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1. • Killing

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1. democide

   mass murder by government or by those in power.

   genocide is generally considered one of the worst moral crimes a government (meaning any ruling authority, including that of a guerrilla group, a quasi state, a soviet, a terrorist organization, or an occupation authority) can commit against its citizens or those it controls.

   Submitted by rinat on October 30, 2015  

2. mass extinction

   deliberate killing of a large group of peole, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation

   Submitted by acronimous on April 4, 2017  

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1. List of paraphrases for "genocide":

   genocidal, extermination, annihilation, massacre

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1. Michael McCaul:

   The CCP is currently committing genocide against ethnic and religious minorities in their country and are brutally cracking down on peaceful protesters in Hong Kong who are simply crying out for freedom, until they stop murdering and imprisoning their own people, I don’t believe anyone in the world should look to them for moral advice.

2. Arsen Ostrovsky:

   She literally looked us in the face and said that the Iranian leaders call for genocide against Israel and Jews was an acceptable form of political discourse, twitter cannot, on the one hand, say it is committed to tackling hate and violence when it continues to provide an unfiltered platform to the Iranian leader to continue espousing calls for genocide and terror.

3. Ziba Murat:

   She was a doctor, she was a healer, but she still was swept into this genocide, it’s a nightmare I wish I could wake up from.

4. Michael McCaul:

   It's reprehensible that the International Olympic Committee has bowed down to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), ignored their gross human rights violations, and allowed them to host this year's Olympics, just as they did in 2008, the CCP will certainly use these Olympics in an attempt to whitewash their genocide, military aggression and oppression of their own people.

5. Bill Nelson:

   When a place gets so tribal that the two tribes won't have anything to do with each other... that jealousy turns into hate, and we saw what happened to the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda, it turned into a genocide. A million-people hacked to death within a few months. And we have got to watch what's happening here.