Definition of Pogrom
Pogrom
po·grom


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(noun)
the organized slaughter of a group of people, typically on the basis of their ethnicity as ordered by a government for political reasons, especially such a massacre of Jewish people in eastern Europe and Russia;

e.g. They carried out a pogrom which caused thousands of people to flee from the country.



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