Shoah

//ˈʃoʊ.ə// name, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A mass murder.
Verb
  1. 1
    To destroy; to remove; to take down, especially from an Internet platform. transitive

    "I had to create a new account, because my old one was shoahed."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The systematic mass murder (genocide) of an estimated six million European Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II. Jewish

    "I never knew him, or any of my other relatives who died in the Shoah. But I would gladly dump every ounce of that gold into the ocean, just to give them a decent burial."

Synonyms

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holocaustholocaustporajmos

Example

More examples

"In Yiddish the Holocaust isn't called the "Shoah," but rather a different Hebrew term, "Khurbn," meaning "destruction.""

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Hebrew שׁוֹאָה (šōʾā, “catastrophe”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hebrew שׁוֹאָה (šōʾā, “catastrophe”).

Related phrases

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