Eugenocide

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The elimination of people considered weak or defective in an attempt to improve the gene pool. uncountable

    "Practiced on an international scale, eugenocide will do much to prevent lingering, tortuous death by starvation, occasioned so often by overbrowse in underdeveloped nations."

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"Practiced on an international scale, eugenocide will do much to prevent lingering, tortuous death by starvation, occasioned so often by overbrowse in underdeveloped nations."

Etymology

Blend of eugenics + genocide.

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gene pool

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