Killing Field (Noun)
Meaning
(usually plural) an area where many people have died (usually by massacre or genocide during war or violent civil disturbance).
Classification
Nouns denoting spatial position.
Examples
- The killing fields of Cambodia are a grim reminder of the atrocities committed during the Khmer Rouge regime.
- The Choeung Ek killing field in Phnom Penh is home to a Buddhist memorial dedicated to the victims of mass executions.
- Historians estimate that tens of thousands of people were brutally slaughtered in the killing fields during the Cambodian Genocide.
- Many tourists and historians visit the infamous Potocari killing fields in Bosnia and Herzegovina to pay their respects to the massacre victims.
- Visitors to the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial and Cemetery walk among the gravestones that mark the killing fields where over 8,000 people were brutally murdered.