holocaust

holocaust has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations.
• n.. Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]
• n.. an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire); "a nuclear holocaust"
• n.. the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945