01 n. A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations.
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A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations.
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Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship.
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The mass killing of millions of Jews by the Nazis during the period from 1933 to 1945 in Germany and German-occupied lands; usually referred to as The Holocaust. In Hebrew, the same event is referred to by the word Shoah. Also: The Holocaust, Shoah