- a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- a sacrifice completely consumed by fire; burnt offering.
- the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
- any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life.
- great destruction or loss of life or the source of such destruction, esp fire
- the mass murder of Jews and members of many other ethnic, social, and political groups in continental Europe between 1940 and 1945 by the Nazi regime
- a rare word for burnt offering
