Genocide

Noun

 * 1) The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status, or other particularity.
 * 2) Acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.

Derived terms

 * genocidal

Thesaurus
aborticide, atrocity, bloodbath, breach, carnage, crime, crime against humanity, deadly sin, decimation, delinquency, dereliction, enormity, error, evil, failure, fault, felony, final solution, fratricide, fungicide, germicide, guilty act, heavy sin, herbicide, holocaust, homicide, impropriety, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, infanticide, iniquity, injury, injustice, insecticide, lapse, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, mass destruction, mass murder, massacre, matricide, microbicide, minor wrong, misdeed, misdemeanor, misfeasance, mortal sin, nonfeasance, offense, omission, outrage, parricide, patricide, peccadillo, peccancy, pesticide, pogrom, race extermination, race-murder, regicide, rodenticide, saturnalia of blood, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slip, sororicide, suicide, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, unutterable sin, uxoricide, venial sin, vermicide, wholesale murder, wrong

Related terms

 * infanticide
 * homicide
 * filicide
 * matricide
 * patricide
 * regicide
 * uxoricide
 * suicide