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Meanings of holocaust in английском

португальский
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.

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              Examples for "burnt sacrifice"
              Examples for "burnt sacrifice"
              1
              Maybe, Caleb, you've beared tell about what the Bible says of burnt sacrifice.
              A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
              2
              I drew forth my manuscript story of the sparrows, and offered it for burnt sacrifice.
              Waifs and Strays / Part 1
              3
              Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the princes of the Moabites with him.
              The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
              4
              He purchased the threshing-floor of Araunah, also oxen and wood and offered a burnt sacrifice to God.
              Mother Stories from the Old Testament / A Book of the Best Stori...
              5
              With the same ceremonies you shall offer a burnt sacrifice for a most sweet odour to the Lord.
              The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
              Usage of holocaust in английском
              1
              Feigenbaum feels the holocaust will yield much great art in the future.
              The new yorker
              2
              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
              4
              Latvian extermination squads and police battalions took part in the local holocaust.
              The Guardian
              5
              But the greatest part of the animal holocaust was in the woods.
              The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
              6
              In the game, the city has been pounded by a nuclear holocaust.
              Wired
              7
              Some two or three thousand persons were consumed in this terrible holocaust.
              A Strange Discovery
              8
              They feared that the world would be destroyed by a nuclear holocaust.
              The Irish Times
              9
              Command Aaron and his sons: This is the law of a holocaust.
              The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
              10
              She made a holocaust of the literature she had once thought entertaining.
              A Short History of Russia
              11
              How many could possibly be still alive in that holocaust, he wondered.
              Swan Song
              12
              One for trespass, and the other for a holocaust, with their libations.
              The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
              13
              I will preserve you through the holocaust that is about to begin.
              The Great Book of Amber
              14
              But Margo, overcome at her contribution to the holocaust, burst into tears.
              The corfu trilogy
              15
              Now engulfed in sulfuric fire, they writhed in torment, an unending holocaust.
              Afterlife: the resurrection chronicles
              16
              Marianne Rubin, 89, is a holocaust survivor and lives in New York.
              BBC
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              португальский
              holocaustosolução final
              Holocaust through the time
              Holocaust across language varieties
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