pogrom

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noun

po·​grom pə-ˈgräm 

-ˈgrəm,

pō-;

ˈpō-grəm,

ˈpä- 

: an organized massacre of helpless people

specifically : such a massacre of Jews

pogrom

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verb

pogromed; pogroming; pogroms

transitive verb

: to massacre or destroy in a pogrom

Examples of pogrom in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

The movie tells the story of four tech billionaires gathering together in a mountain retreat while much of the world descends into rioting, populist pogroms, and potential civil war because of a new content-creation tool just released by one of the ... —Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 27 June 2025

Glass is a human invention, and its breakage is inevitably associated with human violence or a human accident: a burglar’s incursion, a child’s wayward baseball, a pogrom. —Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 May 2025

His ancestors fled pogroms in Ukraine to make their fortune in the United States. —Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025

Jacobo Timerman, its founding editor, was a committed advocate for human rights and democratic institutions whose family had come to Argentina fleeing pogroms in Ukraine in the late 1920s. —Lily Meyer, The Dial, 20 May 2025

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Yiddish, from Russ, literally, devastation

First Known Use

Noun

1891, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1915, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for pogrom

• aplomb
• balaam
• cocom
• embalm
• islam
• salaam
• sitcom
• balm
• bom
• bomb
• calm
• dom