pogrom
10
9.9
- noun
- /ˈpoʊɡrəm/
- Offensive
:
pogromo
- During the 1903 pogrom in Kishinev, many Jewish families lost their homes and lives.
- anti-Semitic pogroms
- pogroms against Jews
- Jewish pogroms
There were then pogroms after pogroms after pogroms of the returning Jews.
- There were then pogroms after pogroms after pogroms of the returning Jews.
- And given my genetic background, my grandparents fled the pogroms just preceding the Holocaust.
- You can't have terrible ideas circulating everywhere leading to pogroms and riots and killings.
- And again, pogroms in Russia had been a thing for a very long time.
- There was a pogrom, but people didn't react as if there was a pogrom.
- They were doing God's work, and they had succeeded in what was, in effect a pogrom.
- I mean the Ukrainian Nazis were as murderous even even more so than the the Germans and they they participated in pogroms and killed Jews and all that.
- Like then there's pogroms and a World War and you are refugees and you work in sweatshops and you don't speak English.
- After three years of riots and pogroms and a brutal British LED counterinsurgency, we should say London gave way to much of Husseini's demands.
- For what it's worth, on my father's side, all but a few were killed by pogrom in, in post Soviet pogrom in Ukraine.
Examples
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In subsequent weeks, the pogrom was extended to all the areas of the country under Kabila's control.
Academic text (2004) -
My father never mentioned this walk to me, nor did we dwell on the pogrom at home.
Academic text (1998) -
And again, pogroms in Russia had been a thing for a very long time.
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Now it is writing about pogroms against Black people in America.
Academic text (1997) -
Most of us left at the beginning of the Revolution because of the pogroms.
Fiction book (1993) -
If there was ever a thoroughly organized pogrom, it was Kristallnacht.
Academic text (1998) -
U.S. forces did little to prevent the pogroms and looting.
Academic text (2007) -
People should not be killed in pogroms by brutes who hate them merely because they are different.
Fiction book (1996) -
On November 10th of the same year, Crystal Night, a nationwide pogrom, was perpetrated against the Reich's Jewish population.
Fiction book (1993) -
The shtetl population was exploding, poverty was rampant, and there were waves of pogroms against Jews, especially in 1881-1882 and thereafter.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
198
7.0
The violent killing of many people in a cruel way
38
6.7
Killing many people on purpose at the same time or in a short time
A violent event where many people are killed and people feel deep sorrow
How Violent
- Offensive
147
7.7
- Offensive
24
9.9
- Offensive
10
9.9
329
4.1
45
3.7
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word pogrom comes from the Russian word pogrom, which meant 'great destruction' and has the parts po- ('completely') and grom ('thunder'). So pogrom now means a violent, often organized attack against a particular group, especially attacks on Jewish communities in the past.