pogrom
noun
[ ˈpɒɡrəm ]
• an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe.
• "the Nazis began a pogrom against Jewish people in Germany"
Similar:
massacre,
slaughter,
wholesale slaughter,
mass slaughter,
mass killing,
mass murder,
mass homicide,
mass execution,
night of the long knives,
annihilation,
extermination,
decimation,
carnage,
bloodbath,
bloodletting,
butchery,
genocide,
holocaust,
Shoah,
ethnic cleansing,
megadeath,
persecution,
witch-hunt,
destruction,
victimization,
Origin:
early 20th century: from Russian, literally ‘devastation’, from gromit ‘destroy by the use of violence’.
