Definitions for pogrom

pogrom po·grom

Spelling: [puh-gruhm, -grom, poh-]
IPA: /pəˈgrʌm, -ˈgrɒm, poʊ-/

Pogrom is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in pogrom (gmoopr).

Definitions for pogrom

noun

  1. an organized massacre, especially of Jews.

Origin of pogrom

1880-85; (Yiddish) Russian pogróm literally, destruction, devastation (of a town, country, etc., as in war), noun derivative of pogromít’, equivalent to po- perfective prefix + gromít’ to des

Examples for pogrom

A massacre (pogrom) of the Jews was perpetrated here in 1903.

The pro-Nazi Palestinian leader, Haj Amin al-Husseini, instigated the Farhud pogrom against the Jews of Iraq in 1941.

They were exploiting a local "putsch" so as to carry out a general "pogrom."

There may be trouble there; we have word that a pogrom is planned; and we may be in time to save some.

Once more the days of expecting a pogrom in Uliassutai returned to us.

Let us make sixty the minimum—or let there be a pogrom among the authors!

Often we heard that the pogrom was led by a priest carrying a cross before the mob.

As of this writing, Ukraine is drawing to a close the bloodiest day of a 72-hour pogrom.

The Whites put up a provocateur as before a pogrom in Russia.

The doctor gives us a picture of a pogrom in a tiny Russian province town.

Word Value for pogrom
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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