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KILLING FIELD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(usually plural) an area where many people have died (usually by massacre or genocide during war or violent civil disturbance)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("killing field" is a kind of...):
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)