<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.</li><li>Synonyms: ravage, havoc, ruin, conflagration, inferno.</li><li>A sacrifice completely consumed by fire; burnt offering.</li><li>Usually the Holocaust.</li><li>The systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.</li><li>Any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life.</li></ul>