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Meanings of holocaust in anglès

portuguès
holocausto

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

holocausto

A sacrifice to a god where the offering is completely burned to ashes.

Usage of holocaust in anglès
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Feigenbaum feels the holocaust will yield much great art in the future.
The new yorker
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Thus the perjured accuser perished in the same holocaust with the accused.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment: Second Series
3
It was a holocaust, Lee said in a Twitter message in December.
Reuters
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Latvian extermination squads and police battalions took part in the local holocaust.
The Guardian
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But the greatest part of the animal holocaust was in the woods.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
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In the game, the city has been pounded by a nuclear holocaust.
Wired
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Some two or three thousand persons were consumed in this terrible holocaust.
A Strange Discovery
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They feared that the world would be destroyed by a nuclear holocaust.
The Irish Times
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Command Aaron and his sons: This is the law of a holocaust.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
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She made a holocaust of the literature she had once thought entertaining.
A Short History of Russia
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How many could possibly be still alive in that holocaust, he wondered.
Swan Song
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One for trespass, and the other for a holocaust, with their libations.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
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I will preserve you through the holocaust that is about to begin.
The Great Book of Amber
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But Margo, overcome at her contribution to the holocaust, burst into tears.
The corfu trilogy
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Now engulfed in sulfuric fire, they writhed in torment, an unending holocaust.
Afterlife: the resurrection chronicles
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Marianne Rubin, 89, is a holocaust survivor and lives in New York.
BBC
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