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pogrom
/ ˈpɒɡrəm /
noun
- an organized persecution or extermination of an ethnic group, esp of Jews
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Origin of pogrom1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pogrom1
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Example Sentences
As of this writing, Ukraine is drawing to a close the bloodiest day of a 72-hour pogrom.
The pro-Nazi Palestinian leader, Haj Amin al-Husseini, instigated the Farhud pogrom against the Jews of Iraq in 1941.
Things came to a head in 1983, in a vicious anti-Tamil pogrom during which thousands of Tamils were killed by mobs.
The Whites put up a provocateur as before a pogrom in Russia.
I remember a time when I thought a pogrom had broken out in our street, and I wonder that I did not die of fear.
Well, if you must know, I was convalescing when these same Chows started a pogrom in the next camp.
These gentry know well the precise points where a pogrom can most easily be started.
The pogrom, it seemed, had been accomplished by an energy weapon which ate great, gaping holes in the sides of buildings.
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