Synonyms of pogroms

pogroms

noun

plural of pogrom

as in massacres

the organized killing of many helpless people usually because of their race or religion

Related Words

• massacres
• genocides
• bloodbaths
• slaughters
• holocausts
• butcheries
• murders
• carnages
• slayings
• deaths
• homicides
• manslaughters
• bloodlettings
• foul play
• bloodsheds
• mortalities
• exterminations
• devastations
• annihilations
• assassinations
• executions
• destructions
• decimations
• eradications

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pogroms

Qusra has suffered from constant settler pogroms over the last few months. — David Shulman, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2026

In conversations with the American Jewish Committee, Ossoff shared that his father is of Russian and Lithuanian Jewish descent, and his relatives fled pogroms and antisemitism in Eastern Europe. — Irene Wright, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026

A lot of Eastern European Jewish refugees arrived in France after the pogroms and worked as tailors and seamstresses for the couture houses. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026

Anti-Jewish riots, or pogroms, swept Russia in the late 19th century. — John Blake, CNN Money, 5 July 2026

Later in the 19th century, pogroms across Eastern Europe and the aftermath of Italian reunification drove a surge of migration to the United States. — Albert Sun, New York Times, 2 July 2026

Other ancestors had fled aboard the Mayflower from the persecution of Puritans in England, aboard a steamship from pogroms in Ukraine, aboard a schooner from Spanish repression in Cuba. — Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026

My parents escaped the pogroms of eastern Europe, came here and faced hardships. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2026

Most Jews in South Africa came from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia—escaping pogroms and the restrictions on their lives imposed by Czarist Russia, and attracted to South Africa by reports of newfound wealth. — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026