Citations:holocaust

verb: burn completely as an offering/sacrifice

 * 1)  To sacrifice (chiefly an animal) to be completely burned.

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 * 1985, Man-environment Systems:
 * How can the holocausting scapegoat sacrifice be redirected psychologically, to get us past our impasse and help us find viable channels for the new energies? Not by mere explaining or preaching to be sure. This is ineffective ...
 * 2011, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Los Angeles, Or American Pharaohs, Deep Sett Press (ISBN 9781468148350), page 221:
 * ... to do it, and they do it well. Therefore they do it. Yummy. Yumminess comes out of the holocausted deer and the Versailles-Manhattanites party so long and hard in the streets and in the apartment buildings and especially on the fire escapes ...

verb: destroy completely, especially by fire

 * 1) To destroy (something) completely, especially by fire.

verb: to annihilate en masse

 * 1) To subject (a group of people) to a holocaust (mass annihilation); to destroy en masse.
 * 2) * 1978, Paul Rassinier, The Holocaust story and the lies of Ulysses: a study of the German concentration camps and the alleged extermination of European Jewry:
 * Ancient Israel may have made &quot;mistakes&quot; in holocausting the Canaanites, and present-day Israelis may—at times—be a bit overbearing on the Palestinian interlopers in &quot;the Promised Land,&quot; but one thing is sure: