pogromnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpɒɡ.rəm/us/ˈpoʊ.ɡrəm/an act of organized cruel behaviour or killing that is done to a large group of people because of their race or religion:
The famines and pogroms in 19th-century eastern Europe forced many Jewish refugees to emigrate.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Murder & attempted murder
- assassinate
- assassination
- attempt
- blow sb away
- blow sb's brains out idiom
- bump
- dispatch
- lynch
- lynch law
- manslaughter
- martyr
- martyred
- necklace
- poison
- slain
- slay
- slaying
- slew 1
- snuff sb out
- throttle
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