pogrom
1 of 2noun
po·grom pə-ˈgräm 
-ˈgrəm,
pō-;
ˈpō-grəm,
ˈpä- : an organized massacre of helpless people
specifically : such a massacre of Jews
pogrom
2 of 2verb
pogromed; pogroming; pogroms
transitive verb
: to massacre or destroy in a pogrom
Example Sentences
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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 An American Tail, about a family of Jewish mice escaping a pogrom. Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2022 Kyiv’s memorial to Babyn Yar — the pogrom memorialized by Dmitri Shostakovich in his Symphony No. 13, which Muti and the CSO widely performed and recorded in a Grammy-winning album — lies ravaged. Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2022 While pro-Russians have since then constructed a myth of Ukrainian Nazis incinerating them in a modern-day pogrom, that is clearly nonsense, like Putin recently babbling about an imaginary Ukrainian genocide against Russian-speakers. Tim Judah, The New York Review of Books, 19 Feb. 2022 There are Israeli soldiers nearby who make no attempt to interfere and who leave the area while the pogrom is going on. David Shulman, The New York Review of Books, 10 Feb. 2022 What happened that day in Halat al-Dab’ is not different in kind from the pogrom in Nikolayev, in Ukraine, in the early years of the twentieth century, when my grandmother’s brother was killed by Cossacks. David Shulman, The New York Review of Books, 10 Feb. 2022 See More
Noun
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 An American Tail, about a family of Jewish mice escaping a pogrom. Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2022 Kyiv’s memorial to Babyn Yar — the pogrom memorialized by Dmitri Shostakovich in his Symphony No. 13, which Muti and the CSO widely performed and recorded in a Grammy-winning album — lies ravaged. Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2022 While pro-Russians have since then constructed a myth of Ukrainian Nazis incinerating them in a modern-day pogrom, that is clearly nonsense, like Putin recently babbling about an imaginary Ukrainian genocide against Russian-speakers. Tim Judah, The New York Review of Books, 19 Feb. 2022 There are Israeli soldiers nearby who make no attempt to interfere and who leave the area while the pogrom is going on. David Shulman, The New York Review of Books, 10 Feb. 2022 What happened that day in Halat al-Dab’ is not different in kind from the pogrom in Nikolayev, in Ukraine, in the early years of the twentieth century, when my grandmother’s brother was killed by Cossacks. David Shulman, The New York Review of Books, 10 Feb. 2022 See More 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
pogroms
noun
as in massacres
the organized killing of many helpless people usually because of their race or religion Synonyms & Similar Words
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