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po·grom

   [puh-gruhm, -grom, poh-]
noun
an organized massacre, especially of Jews.
Origin:
1880–85; (< Yiddish ) < Russian pogróm literally, destruction, devastation (of a town, country, etc., as in war), noun derivative of pogromít’, equivalent to po- perfective prefix + gromít’ to destroy, devastate, derivative of grom thunder

Can be confused: pogrom, program.

Synonyms
slaughter, butchery.

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  • They want to leave the country where a war might break out from one year to the next, and from one week to the next, a pogrom.
  • Long before that, there is the history of blood accusation, pogrom and expulsion.
  • We live from pogrom to pogrom, one of my friends recently said.
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pogrom (ˈpɒɡrəm)
 
—n
an organized persecution or extermination of an ethnic group, esp of Jews
 
[C20: via Yiddish from Russian: destruction, from po- like + grom thunder]

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pogrom
1882, from Yiddish pogrom, from Rus. pogromu "devastation, destruction," from po- "by, through" + gromu "thunder, roar," from PIE imitative base *ghrem- (see grim).
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pogrom [(puh-grum, puh-grom, poh-gruhm)]

A massacre or persecution instigated by the government or by the ruling class against a minority group, particularly Jews.

Note: Pogroms were common in Russia during the nineteenth century.
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