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memorycide

memorycide noun: the deliberate destruction of all traces and physical reminders of a people.

Noun

memorycide (countable and uncountable, plural memorycides)

  1. The deliberate destruction of all traces and physical reminders of a people.
    • And we can but fear the consequence of this memorycide on the future of Lebanon.2002, Lynn Meskell, Archaeology Under Fire, →ISBN
    • They foreshadowed a total war against a population threatened with "memorycide," to use Mirko Grmek's terminology, as well as "Urbicide," a fundamental dimension of this memorycide, as Bogdan Bogdanovic put it.2003, Robert Gellately, Ben Kiernan, The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, →ISBN

Forms of memorycide

pluralmemorycides

Origin of memorycide

From memory + -cide.

Questions about memorycide

What does memorycide mean?
Memorycide means the deliberate destruction of all traces and physical reminders of a people.
What part of speech is memorycide?
Memorycide is a noun.
What is the plural of memorycide?
The plural of memorycide is memorycides.

Words near memorycide in the dictionary

  1. memory-unsafe
  2. memory-wipe
  3. memory-wiped
  4. memory-wipes
  5. memory-wiping
  6. memorycide
  7. memorycides
  8. memoryful
  9. memorying
  10. memoryless
  11. memorylessness

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