pogrom in English

noun

1

an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe.

Between 1881 and 1906 more than a million Jews arrived in New York, fleeing the pogroms in Russia and eastern Europe.

synonyms: massacre, slaughter, mass murder, annihilation, extermination, decimation, carnage, bloodbath, bloodletting, butchery, genocide, holocaust, purge, ethnic cleansing

noun

massacre, slaughter, mass murder, annihilation, extermination, decimation, carnage, bloodbath, bloodletting, butchery, genocide, holocaust, purge, ethnic cleansing

Use "pogrom" in a sentence

1. And when the pogrom in `Aden happened, they were in danger.

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3. A pogrom in 1893 persuaded Moses Baline to bring his family to New York, and they settled on Cherry

4. 4 The way some of his colleagues told it afterward, he nearly started a pogrom.

5. 2 That pogrom followed allegations that a Muslim mob had been responsible for the deaths of Hindu activists.

6. On September 6, 1955, during the anti-Greek Istanbul Pogrom, the church was one of the targets of the fanatic mob.

7. 10 Even if we do not go towards a financial pogrom, social conscience doubts finance as a source of real wealth.

8. 3 The book focuses on the Kielce pogrom, the murder of more than 40 Jews by local Poles in July 19

9. 7 Street-fighting in Osh, the largest city in southern Kyrgyzstan, between ethnic Kyrgyz and minority Uzbeks escalated rapidly into a pogrom.

10. 8 But in 190 Nicholas II's government encouraged a new pogrom, so Bob's people grabbed their weapons, packed up their families, and mounted their horses.

11. 9 Two brothers fall in love with the same girl, Zoya, a 19-year-old Jewess, in a Moscow that is readying for a pogrom [4] some time between the second world war and the death of Stalin.