ethnic cleansing

ethnic cleansing

The elimination of a particular ethnic group from a population, as through forced emigration or genocide. Ethnic cleansing is strongly associated with the Yugoslav Wars, during which large numbers of Bosnian Muslims and Croats were murdered.
See also: cleanse, ethnic
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • ethnic
  • ethnic music
  • have a lick of the tar brush
  • have a touch of the tar brush
  • touch of the tar brush
  • twinkie
  • burn with
  • burn with (something)
  • cleanse the Augean stables of (something)
  • den of thieves, a