pogrom
pogrom [ puh’-GRUHM, -GROM, poh- ] | |
[ noun ] | |
MEANING : | |
an organized massacre of helpless people esp. those of jews | |
USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | |
The holocaust against Jews during world war II was the most ghastly pogrom ever witnessed by mankind. | |
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | |
The first pogrom is often considered to be the 1821 anti-Jewish riots in Odessa (modern Ukraine) after the death of the Greek Orthodox patriarch in Istanbul, in which 14 Jews were killed. |
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