单词 | pogrom |
释义 | pogromn. 1. In Russia, Poland, and some other East European countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: an organized massacre aimed at the destruction or annihilation of a body or class of people, esp. one conducted against Jewish people. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] > instance of slaughter1483 Sicilian Vespers1586 plot of the long knivesa1604 blood feast?1611 Parisian matins1614 Parisian massacre1657 bloodbath1814 Roman holiday1818 holocaust1833 bath of blood1882 pogrom1889 bloodfest1907 blood purge1959 1889 Cent. Mag. Sept. 734/2 This unprovoked attack of an armed force upon sleeping an defenseless prisoners is known..as ‘the pogróm of May 11’. 1903 Times 7 Dec. 10 The pogrom was first instituted after the assassination of Alexander II, in 1881, when anti-semitism and reaction flourished under General Ignatieff. 1905 Daily News 12 June 5 The only means of combating the ‘pogroms’ is armed resistance. 1919 N. Sokolow Hist. Zionism II. p. li Not even the dark ages extracted so heavy a toll of Jewish blood: something like 1400 pogroms took place all over the Ghetto. 1968 New Left Rev. Jan. 65 Then came the years of galloping inflation, of the pogroms, of acute social, political and intellectual ferment. 1979 O. Sela Petrograd Consignment 142 Wasn't he eager to go back to Russia..to read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion again; wasn't another pogrom all he lived for. 1996 Christian Sci. Monitor (Boston) 6 Sept. 14/2 Mr Borodowsky's grandfather..immigrated to the desolate and empty Argentine pampas to escape the pogroms of czarist Russia. 2. gen. An organized, officially tolerated, attack on any community or group. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > racism > organized attack on community or group pogrom1906 1906 Tribune 16 June 7/2 This was the immediate signal for a pogrom, or organized riot. 1920 H. J. C. Grierson in Proc. Brit. Acad. 1919–20 433 Only Henley refused to take part in the ‘pogrom’; and he alas! died before completing his work as champion, critic, and editor of Byron. 1936 H. A. L. Fisher Hist. Europe i. xviii. 232 The Greek Empire..had disgraced itself by a pogrom against the French and Italian colony in Constantinople. 1964 New Statesman 13 Mar. 405/1 The charge that there had been a plot—a ‘pogrom’ in the contemporary phrase—to crush Ulster's resistance to Home Rule by force of arms. 1975 R. Browning Emperor Julian iii. 51 Hannibalianus had been killed in 337 in the pogrom of his relations engineered by Constantius. 1995 Frank 13 Sept. 10/3 The current CBC downsizing pogrom is bringing out the worst among Corpse sluggos. Take, for example, the recent backstabbing of..the talented arts reporter. Compounds General attributive, as pogrom situation, pogrom war, etc.; pogrom-haunted, pogrom-threatened, adjs. ΚΠ 1917 Sci. Monthly Sept. 218 The ‘Black Band’ papers continued and increased their pogrom agitation, scattering broadcast accusations of treachery against the whole race. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Nov. 855/2 Refugees to England from pogrom-haunted Russia. 1941 A. Koestler Scum of Earth 85 The French Government discovered a welcome diversion from the general discontent by exploiting the people's natural hostility to foreigners, and appealing to their pogrom instincts. 1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. i. vii. 69 Many of these young men had been members of the Jewish self-defence organizations in the pogrom-threatened small towns of Russia. 1978 D. Murphy Place Apart viii. 167 Few of us would wish to see our army crossing the [Irish] border to fight Loyalist paramilitaries... If another ‘pogrom’ situation did arise..it would make more sense to welcome..refugees into the Republic. 1993 U.S. News & World Rep. 11 Jan. 29/3 In poverty-ravaged Egypt, fundamentalist gangs wage pogrom war on Christian Copts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pogromv. transitive. To subject to a pogrom. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [verb (transitive)] to bathe in bloodc1300 murderc1325 to make larder ofa1330 spend1481 to lick upa1500 slaught1535 butcher1562 wipe1577 slaughter1586 massacre1588 dispeople1596 shamble1601 depeople?1611 mow1615 internecate1623 dislaughter1661 mop1899 pogrom1915 decimate1944 overkill1946 1915 Boston Jrnl. 2 Feb. 3/2 [The Jews in Galicia] are being..pogromed. 1919 Daily Chron. 10 Oct. 1/1 The total number of places pogrommed was 353, and the Jews killed 20,500. 1979 Country Life 8 Nov. 1688 Such a gathering is, to Mr Pirates, vile enough to justify his decision to pogrom the lot. 1991 A. M. Dershowitz Chutzpah Introd. 8 Over the centuries, we were expelled, pogromed, crusaded, inquisitioned, jihaded, and holocausted out of countries that we helped to make great. Derivatives ˈpogromed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [adjective] > slaughtered snetched1567 butchered1584 massacred1590 slaughtered1594 carnaged1796 shambled1900 pogromed1918 1918 G. Frankau One of Them xv, in Poet. Wks. (1923) II. 107 Its East End drab bits..Where toiled..The pogromed horde, and multiplied like rabbits. 1946 A. Koestler Thieves in Night 217 They [sc. the Jews] are the most admirable salesmen in the world, regardless of whether they sell carpets, Marxism,..or their own pogromed infants. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1889v.1915 |
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