pogrom

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an organized massacre, especially of an ethnic group

   Many fled abroad after the brutal pogrom.

From Russian pogrom ('devastation, destruction'), from gromit ('to destroy, demolish'), from grom ('thunder'). Used specifically of organized massacres of Jews in late 19th-century Russia.

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