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po·grom (pō′grəm, -gräm′; pō gräm′)

noun

an organized persecution and massacre, often officially prompted, of a minority group, esp. of Jews (as in czarist Russia)

Etymology: < Russ, earlier, riot, storm < po-, on, at, by (< IE *pos-, after > L post) + grom, thunder: see grim

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pogrom Synonyms

pogrom

n.

slaughter, carnage, mass murder, massacre; see carnage, murder. See syn. study at carnage.


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pogrom Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • escape: The family had escaped the pogroms in Galicia which was then part of the Austrian Empire.

Preposition: at

  • end: His parents had escaped from Russia in one of the pogroms at the end of the nineteenth century and gone to South Africa.

Adjective modifier

  • anti-semitic: Werth estimates that 150,000 people were killed in the anti-semitic pogroms conducted by Denikin's troops in 1919.

Preposition: of

  • history: It is a product of pogroms, and is itself the greatest pogrom of history.
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