Holocaust is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HOLOCAUST in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a complete or wholesale destruction, esp. by fire
• destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war
• the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–5. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
• a Jewish sacrificial offering which was burnt completely on an altar.
• destruction or loss of life on a massive scale
• A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations.
• Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]
• an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire)
• the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945
• the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–5. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a sacrifice consumed by fire

Words related to HOLOCAUST

holocausts15

Words that contain HOLOCAUST

holocausts15 holocaustal16 holocaustic18 postholocaust20

How to use HOLOCAUST in a sentence

• It may be a holocaust through which Eve gains that pay envelope, but the material possession brings gratification nevertheless.
• Her battlefields converted into building lots, tall factories smoked where once a holocaust had flamed, and where cannon had roared you heard to-day the tinkle of the school bell.
• Thou holocaust of Abel, By Cain in vain despised! 2d Monk.
• The next day Xenophon went on to Ophrynium and sacrificed, offering a holocaust of swine, after the custom of his family, and the signs which he obtained were favourable.
• The last act seemed to drag, and it was only for the sake of witnessing the holocaust at the end that he sat it out.
• Exodus Chapter 38 He maketh the altar of holocaust.
• If his offering be a holocaust, and of the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish, at the door of the testimony, to make the Lord favourable to him.
• And the other he shall burn for a holocaust, as is wont to be done.
• And he shall give the same measure of wine to pour out in libations for the holocaust or for the victim.
• Besides the holocaust of the first day of the month with the sacrifices thereof, and the perpetual holocaust with the accustomed libations.
• Whosoever shall first come forth out of the doors of my house, and shall meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, the same will I offer a holocaust to the Lord.
• The holocaust of the morning filled him with bitter regret.
• He carried out the main part of his intention by burning the work in the presence of Fray Bartolome de Carranza, to whom he explained the meaning of this holocaust.
• This must have been his last act, for his death and this holocaust of ancestral claims both occurred in the year 1682.
• She made a holocaust of the literature she had once thought entertaining.
• This shipwreck, this holocaust of books will stop the production of them in your country also, if I do not err, and will teach editors to be upon their guard.
• In this frightful holocaust which is sweeping all over Europe, the United States has adopted a neutral attitude.
• Death has never enjoyed such a carnival of slaughter before, and it is Civilization that has made the holocaust possible.
• Hence, under the Old Law, the holocaust was offered, so called because the victim was wholly burnt, as we read in the first chapter of Leviticus.
• Wherefore one offering was made as a holocaust and another for sin.
• Emile had arrived only just in time to prevent the holocaust, and the two men exchanged fiery words for the next ten minutes.
• Especially in the first months of the autumn of 1914 the holocaust was terrible.
• In one day you have made a holocaust of your youth and become a miser before your time.
• This must have brought a holocaust of reprisals that would have made the orgy of Louvain comparatively insignificant.
• One life is not worth considering in the face of the holocaust that has taken its hundreds of thousands and has been defended in the schools and churches.
• Does this mean that there had been a holocaust in Manila? Not at all.
• He had always in his mind the agonies of the war, the sights of the trenches, the holocaust of young life, the drain on the national resources, the burden on the national future.
• A lucky combination of circumstances alone had prevented a holocaust.
• With all the heart, and with that tongue which speaks The same in all, an holocaust I made To God befitting the new grace vouchsafed.
• He enters the holocaust and passes into nothingness, feeling heavy blows.
• The contents of the baskets were heaped upon the fagots, and the holocaust was complete.

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