Shoah

name
/ˈʃəʊ.ə/UK/ˈʃoʊ.ə/US

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from שׁוֹאָה

Definitions

  1. The systematic mass murder (genocide) of an estimated six million European Jews…

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

    • 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.
  2. A mass murder.

  3. To destroy

    To destroy; to remove; to take down, especially from an Internet platform.

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

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for Shoah. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA