pogrom

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noun

po·grom pə-ˈgräm

-ˈgrəm,

pō-;

ˈpō-grəm,

ˈpä-

Synonyms of pogrom next

: 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

Example Sentences

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Noun

But that ended abruptly when more than 40 Jews were killed during a pogrom that began in Kielce and spread to other cities in 1946. —

Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2023 Unseen photographs from the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom have been released on the 84th anniversary of the deadly antisemitic event. —

Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2022 The photos were taken by Nazi photographers during the pogrom in the city of Nuremberg and the nearby town of Fuerth. —

Ilan Ben Zion, Hartford Courant, 9 Nov. 2022 Worst of all, in August 1920 Russian Cossacks charged through, instigating a brutal pogrom and seizing 230 Jewish men as hostages, one of whom was Shenka’s husband and Sarah’s father, Dovid. —

Diane Cole, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022 In 1905, a savage Russian pogrom took hundreds of Jewish lives. —

New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022 A few months later, in February 2002, following an act of arson in which a railway carriage carrying Hindu pilgrims was burnt, there was a brutal pogrom against Muslims in the villages and towns of Gujarat. —

Arundhati Roy, CNN, 22 June 2022 Two days after the pogrom, a reporter visited the Tongs’ ransacked store. —

Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 11 May 2022 The pogrom was incited by the government of then-Turkish premier Adnan Menderes and his ruling Democrat Party. —

David I. Klein, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Nov. 2021 See More

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