genocide /jĕn′ə-sīd″/ noun The systematic and widespread...

genocide /jĕn′ə-sīd″/

noun

1. The systematic and widespread extermination or attempted extermination of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.
2. The systematic killing of a racial or cultural group.
   "the Nazi genocide of Jews left few in Germany or Poland after World War II"
   Similar: race murder racial extermination
3. The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status, or other particularity.