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Dutch
Etymology
From vernietiging + -s- + oorlog, probably a calque of German Vernichtungskrieg.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɛrˈni.tə.ɣɪŋsˌoːr.lɔx/
- Hyphenation: ver‧nie‧ti‧gings‧oor‧log
Noun
vernietigingsoorlog m (plural vernietigingsoorlogen)
- war of extermination
- 1820, Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren, Carthago, in zijne staatkundige en handelbetrekkingen, van zijne opkomst tot zijnen ondergang, beschouwd, tr. from German by G. Dorn Seiffen, page 255.
[…] en in de oogen van iederen vaderlandlievenden Carthager, die niet eenen geheelen vernietigingsoorlog begeerde, was deze wensch zoo veel te vergeeflijker, vermits de Republiek, bij alle in/panningen, toch geene verdere onmiddelbare voordeelen van den oorlog verkreeg; […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Synonym: vernietigingskrijg