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pogrom

/puh-gruhm, -grom, poh-/US // pəˈgrʌm, -ˈgrɒm, poʊ- //UK // (ˈpɒɡrəm) //

大屠杀,大屠杀事件,迫害,梭罗

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an organized massacre, especially of Jews.

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Examples

  • Even as the pogrom becomes common knowledge, there are many truths about it that likely won’t ever be known.

  • We have, in a short period of time, experienced periodic pogroms and other political forms of death.

  • We don’t like use a word pogrom unless we can use it in Africa or someplace else.

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

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

  • Things came to a head in 1983, in a vicious anti-Tamil pogrom during which thousands of Tamils were killed by mobs.

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

  • I remember a time when I thought a pogrom had broken out in our street, and I wonder that I did not die of fear.

  • Well, if you must know, I was convalescing when these same Chows started a pogrom in the next camp.

  • These gentry know well the precise points where a pogrom can most easily be started.

  • The pogrom, it seemed, had been accomplished by an energy weapon which ate great, gaping holes in the sides of buildings.