Pogrom - English meaning

noun

Complete destruction or obliteration.

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The threat of global annihilation

noun

Complete destruction, so that nothing or no one is left

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During the cold war the threat of nuclear annihilation was always on people's minds., the candidate…

abbreviation

Barrel.

abbreviation

(in scotland and ireland) bachelor of law.

noun

An event or situation in which many people are killed in an extremely violent way.

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He allowed the protest to go ahead despite warnings that it would spark a bloodbath

noun

The killing of a great number of people

noun

The killing of a large number of people.

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The bombing was timed to cause as much carnage as possible

noun

The violent killing of large numbers of people, esp. in war

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The battle of gettysburg was a scene of dreadful carnage.

noun

The killing or destruction of a large proportion of a group or species.

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Our growing hunger for fish has resulted in the decimation of fish stocks

noun

The act of killing a something in large numbers, or reducing something severely

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The virtual decimation of the population through influenza

noun

Killing, especially of a whole group of people or animals.

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The near extermination of the buffalo herds

noun

The act of killing all the animals or people in a particular place or of a particular type

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International measures have been taken to prevent the extermination of the whale., prairie dogs hav…

noun

An indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of many people.

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The attack was described as a cold-blooded massacre

verb

Deliberately and brutally kill (many people).

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Thousands were brutally massacred by soldiers

noun

The killing of a large number of people, esp. people who are not involved in any fighting or have no way of defending themselves

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Guerrilla troops are thought to have massacred the entire village.

verb

Kill (animals) for food.

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At present the abattoir is slaughtering animals for the domestic market

noun

The killing of animals for food.

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Thousands of calves were exported to the continent for slaughter

noun

The killing of animals for their meat, or the killing of large numbers of animals in a cruel manner

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We must find ways of reducing the slaughter on the highways (= deaths of many people in car acciden…