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| po·grom [ pə gróm, pṓgrəm ] (plural po·groms) |
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organized killing of minority: a planned campaign of persecution or extermination sanctioned by a government and directed against an ethnic group, especially against the Jews in tsarist Russia
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| [Early 20th century. < Russian, "devastation" < gromit "wreak havoc" < grom "thunder"] |
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