Holocaust
Holocaust noun - The killing of a large number of people.
Usage example: as many as 2,000,000 people may have perished in the holocaust perpetrated by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge
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Synonyms for Holocaust
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- massacre and holocaust
- massacre and murder
- annihilation and holocaust
- annihilation and murder
- destruction and holocaust
- destruction and murder
- ruin and holocaust
- ruin and murder
- killing and holocaust
- killing and murder
- slaughter and holocaust
- slaughter and murder
- carnage and holocaust
- carnage and murder
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- Charlie the Unicorn's already been mentioned, but that's just scratching the surface-their other cartoons include sadistic children's show mascots, man-eating Llamas, John Mc Cain's hallucinations, Ferrets who sing joyfully about the Holocaust and murder...and it's all played for laughs.
Source: Nightmare Fuel / Web Original -
The Freedom Party from the Timeline-191 series are the Alternate Universe CSA-version of the Nazis, with Jake Featherston standing in for Hitler, and mass murder of blacks replacing the Holocaust.
Source: A Nazi by Any Other Name -
Lacked further political power to speak of and therefore had no word to say in the running of the war or The Holocaust, but still got beaten and tortured after his capture (the only Nuremberg Trial defendant to be treated so) and sentenced to death for inciting to mass murder.
Source: Characters / Nazi Germany
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Murder and Holocaust. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/holocaust/murder
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