English Explanatory Dictionary

autogenocide

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The extermination of a country's citizens by its own people or government.
  2. Genocide of a particular group by members of that group.

Word forms

autogenocide auto-genocide

Etymology

From auto- + genocide, coined in the late 1970s.

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