pogrom
noun /ˈpɒɡrəm/
/ˈpəʊɡrəm/
- the organized killing of large numbers of people, because of their race or religion (originally the killing of Jews in Russia)
- The film shows interviews with survivors of the pogrom.
Word Originearly 20th cent.: from Russian, literally ‘devastation’, from gromit ‘destroy by the use of violence’.