pogrom

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  1. noun An organized, often officially encouraged massacre or persecution of a minority group, especially one conducted against Jews.

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  • Prime Minister Olmert called the settler rampage a "pogrom," the word used to describe anti-Semitic violence in 19th and early
  • After the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom, the CPM and its front organisations were marginal in exposing the culprits or providing relief to the victims. —  Kafila
  • Rora's stories about the siege echo the Kishinev pogrom, the early 20th-century anti-anarchist hysteria, and post-9 / 11 anti-Muslim frenzy in the U.S. —  California Literary Review
  • In its effort to stop the pogrom, the British police killed 110 Arabs rioters. —  CAMERA Snapshots
  • A pogrom was a collective punishment attack against random innocent people by the majority, protected by the police. —  TPMCafe
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  1. Russian, outrage, havoc, from pogromit', to wreak havoc : po-, adverbial pref. (from po, next to; see apo- in Indo-European roots) + gromit', to outrage, wreak havoc (from grom, thunder).

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  1. Russian pogromǐ, desolation.
 

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