killing field

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Definition of killing field in English English dictionary: a place of mass slaughter; especially the Killing Fields of Cambodia; the field of fire of a machine gun or artillery; (usually plural) an area where many people have died (usually by massacre or genocide during war or violent civil disturbance)
Killing Fields: a number of sites in Cambodia where mass slaughter of some 2,000,000 people was carried out by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s
killing fields: plural form of killing field
Killing Fields: a British film about the events in Cambodia in 1975-79, when Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were in power and killed millions of people (1984)

killing field

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kill·ing field

kîlîng fild

/ˈkələɴɢ ˈfēld/ /ˈkɪlɪŋ ˈfiːld/

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