populicide UK /ˈpɒpjʊlɪsaɪd/US /ˈpɑpjələˌsaɪd/ noun1 •(no longer used) The deliberate slaughter of a people or a nation.I mourn for Mr. [Abraham] Lincoln, as man should mourn the fate of man, when it is sudden and supreme. I hate regicide as I do populicide—deeply, if phrenzied; more deeply, if deliberate. — 1865 formspopulicides