pogrom

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noun

po·​grom pə-ˈgräm How to pronounce pogrom (audio)
-ˈgrəm,
pō-;
ˈpō-grəm,
ˈpä- How to pronounce pogrom (audio)
: an organized massacre of helpless people
specifically : such a massacre of Jews

pogrom

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verb

pogromed; pogroming; pogroms

transitive verb

: to massacre or destroy in a pogrom

Examples of pogrom in a Sentence

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Noun
The Arab revolt was eventually put down, and Husseini fled to Nazi Germany — but not before inciting another pogrom in Baghdad, Iraq. Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025 But if sectarian pogroms continue on his watch, those assurances will start to look hollow. Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 14 May 2025 The movie tells the story of four tech billionaires gathering together in a mountain retreat while much of the world descends into rioting, populist pogroms, and potential civil war because of a new content-creation tool just released by one of the ... Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 27 June 2025 Glass is a human invention, and its breakage is inevitably associated with human violence or a human accident: a burglar’s incursion, a child’s wayward baseball, a pogrom. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for pogrom

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Yiddish, from Russ, literally, devastation

First Known Use

Noun

1891, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1915, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of pogrom was in 1891

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“Pogrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pogrom. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.

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