bloodletting vs genocide

bloodletting

noun
  • A circumstance, such as a battle, where a large amount of blood is likely to be spilled through violence. 

  • The archaic practice of treating illness by removing some blood, believed to be tainted, from the stricken person. 

  • The diminishment of any resource with the hope that this will lead to a positive effect. 

genocide

noun
  • The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people, typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality. 

  • A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened. 

  • The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on other grounds. 

  • The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player. 

  • The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide. 

verb
  • To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely. 

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