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单词 omnicide
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omniciden.

Brit. /ˈɒmnᵻsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈɑmnəˌsaɪd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: omni- comb. form, -cide comb. form2.
Etymology: < omni- comb. form + -cide comb. form2.
The killing of everybody or everything; the destruction of all living things. Also: the annihilation of an entire species, esp. the human race.
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1959 New Yorker 14 Nov. 114/1 We..are now equipped for a new crime, as yet untitled, though a good name for it would be omnicide—the murder of everyone.
1981 J. Somerville Soviet Marxism & Nucl. War xii. 151 We might use the new word, biocide, or better still, omnicide... Thermonuclear conflict can kill everybody, and not only every person, but every animal and plant..and everything created by life.
1998 Jrnl. Mass Media Ethics 13 76 Fiber optics, refractory coating, satellite parking lots.., all add to the coming state of what scientists call omnicide, the death of all life as we know it.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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